Re: PATCH: CITEXT 2.0

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: CITEXT 2.0
Date: 2008-07-03 04:39:13
Message-ID: C99EBF12-0015-4689-871C-71358E10CE0D@kineticode.com
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On Jul 2, 2008, at 09:39, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>> Well, yeah, but that seems a very long way off. In the meantime a
>> lot
>> of people use the existing pgfoundry citext module.
>
> Indeed, but why isn't this code put there as well?

It could be, but this is *such* a common need (and few even know about
pgFoundry), that I thought it'd be worthwhile to get it distributed as
part of contrib.

Best,

David

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