Asko Oja wrote:
About citext. Skype is using various hacks and workarounds because
there was no such type in PostgreSQL and i understand others also. To
me it seems to be choice between couple of developers doing it once
and for all and hundreds of developers inventing the wheel every day
and not to mention hours spent debugging over various layers of
applications. It just shows how hackers have totally different point
of view on things from people who are using the program:) But again i
am just a manager and should be lower than grass in hackers list :)
Plenty of us who are hackers are also users.
ISTM that Tom's objection is really that citext is a hack, and that it
will actually make it harder for us to get to a collation-based case
insensitive comparison. I think if we adopt that view then we need to
form a plan for doing this right, and soon, as it is a significant
current pain point, especially for people migrating from other databases.
cheers
andrew
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