| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo(dot)santamaria(at)gmail(dot)com>, Arthur Zakirov <zaartur(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() to accept localized names |
| Date: | 2020-01-24 16:46:48 |
| Message-ID: | 964.1579884408@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Looking through the patch quickly, if you want to get Unicode-fancy,
> doing a case-insensitive comparison by running lower-case on both
> strings is also wrong in corner cases. All the Greek month names end in
> sigma, so I suspect that this patch might not work correctly in such cases.
Hm. That's basically what citext does, and I don't recall hearing
complaints about that. What other definition of "case insensitive"
would you suggest?
regards, tom lane
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