Re: Case sensitivity

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:02:47AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)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(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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