Re: is this a bug or I am blind?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Cc: Russ Brown <pickscrape(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: is this a bug or I am blind?
Date: 2005-12-19 15:02:05
Message-ID: 29222.1135004525@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> writes:
>> Trouble is, you can never guarantee that you're dealing with actual words.
>> What of you're comparing someone's password that happens to contain
>> combination of letters that act in this way?

> Well, in this case why would you care about how passwords are sorted ?

You don't. But you do care about what equality means, and the
discussion in this thread is really about changing that, not about
changing the behavior of sorting. (The side-effects on sorting will
be so minor that it's unlikely anyone would notice, with either
solution.)

regards, tom lane

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