From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Frank Millman <frank@chagford.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Case sensitivity
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:54:02 +0200
Message-ID: <20050809155402.GE8244@svana.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16183.1123599767@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:02:47AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> > Another option would be to create a new datatype 'itext' which works
> > like text except it compares case insensetively. PostgreSQL is flexible
> > like that. Here's something to get you started, see below for example.
>
> > http://svana.org/kleptog/pgsql/type_itext.sql
>
> > At the moment it uses SQL functions for the comparisons, for production
> > you'd probably want to have them in C for performance.
>
> I believe there is a C-coded type like this on gborg ("citext" is the
> name I think).
And so it is, full points to Tom. Here's the link:
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/citext/projdisplay.php
I couldn't work out any obvious way to make google spit out this link
without the magic word "citext", so hopefully this reference will raise
the score enough that a plain google search for "case insensitive
postgresql" will find it.
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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