| From: | Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PATCH: CITEXT 2.0 v2 |
| Date: | 2008-07-07 18:57:38 |
| Message-ID: | 48726722.9000301@sun.com |
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Andrew Dunstan napsal(a):
>
>
> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>>
>>
>> 2) contrib vs. pgFoundry
>>
>> There is unresolved answer if we want to have this in contrib or not.
>> Good to mention that citext type will be obsoleted with full collation
>> implementation in a future. I personally prefer to keep it on
>> pgFoundry because it is temporally workaround (by my opinion), but I
>> can live with contrib module as well.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Is there a concrete plan to get to full collation support (i.e. per
> column) in any known time frame? If not, then I think a citext module
> would be acceptable.
Collation per database should be part of 8.4. Radek Strnad works on it as a SoC
project. He plans to continue on this work and implement full support as his
Master of Thesis in 2-3 years time frame.
Zdenek
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Zdenek Kotala Sun Microsystems
Prague, Czech Republic http://sun.com/postgresql
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