Re: Case sensitivity

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:57:48AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> 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. Also, it's not
> pg_dump safe (no operator class support).

Oops, turns out there *is* a CREATE OPERATOR CLASS but my version of
psql doesn't have it in command completion. And when you use that it
*is* saved by pg_dump. Problem solved.

I've tested various things, DISTINCT works, ORDER BY works, GROUP BY
works. Neat huh?

Have a nice day,
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