Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Asko Oja <ascoja(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?
Date: 2008-07-28 17:27:21
Message-ID: 7CAF338E-353C-47B6-90A2-CFB4EA5EAD29@kineticode.com
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On Jul 28, 2008, at 09:01, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Plenty of us who are hackers are also users.
>
> ISTM that Tom's objection is really that citext is a hack, and that
> it will actually make it harder for us to get to a collation-based
> case insensitive comparison.

Well, that's why it's in contrib.

> I think if we adopt that view then we need to form a plan for doing
> this right, and soon, as it is a significant current pain point,
> especially for people migrating from other databases.

+1

Best,

David

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