Re: Case Insensitive Data Type

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Russell Black" <russell(dot)black(at)iarchives(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Case Insensitive Data Type
Date: 2002-05-24 23:08:22
Message-ID: 22024.1022281702@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Russell Black" <russell(dot)black(at)iarchives(dot)com> writes:
> I'd be happy with something which was just plain case-insensitive.
> Given that, I would imagine it would be much less than 100 lines of C code,
> and could probably be done in plpgsql.

You'll still have to get your hands dirty with C. AFAIK there isn't any
way to define I/O functions for new datatypes in any of the PL languages
we have.

regards, tom lane

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