Re: Issue is changing _bt_compare function and

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: sandeep satpal <sandeep(at)it(dot)iitb(dot)ac(dot)in>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Issue is changing _bt_compare function and
Date: 2005-10-09 09:18:57
Message-ID: 4348E081.7010700@familyhealth.com.au
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> Well, _bt_compare is used for every btree index in the system,
> including all the system indexes. A fresh initdb already has several
> dozen indexes already so your code has to deal with that.
>
> Remember, _bt_compare compares strings, integers, floats, dates, etc
> and your code needs to work for all of them too... What does it mean to
> compare dates case-insensetivly?

Yes, shouldn't you just be making a simple new string type that's case
insensitive?

Chris

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