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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