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From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
To: Thom Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Vik Fearing <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Lawrence Barwick <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Add CASEFOLD() function.
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 21:26:23 -0700
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On Thu, 2025-06-19 at 05:03 +0100, Thom Brown wrote:
> Late to the party, but is there an argument for porting this to the
> citext type? Or supplementing the extension with an additional type
> ("cftext"? *shrug*).

CASEFOLD() addresses a lot of the problems with using LOWER(), so that
sounds like a good idea. I'd be interested to hear from users of
citext.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis

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