Re: PATCH: CITEXT 2.0

On Jul 7, 2008, at 13:59, Gregory Stark wrote:

> Of course the obvious case of two equivalent strings with different
> bytes
> would be two strings which differ only in case in a collation which
> doesn't
> distinguish based on case. So you obviously can't take this route
> for citext.

Well, to be fair, citext isn't imposing a collation. It's just calling
str_tolower() on strings before passing them on to varstr_cmp() or
strncmp() to compare.

> I don't think you have to worry about the problem that cause
> Postgres to make
> this change. IIRC it was someone comparing strings like paths and
> usernames
> and getting false positives because they were in a Turkish locale
> which found
> certain sequences of characters to be insignificant for ordering.
> Someone
> who's using a citext data type has obviously decided that's
> precisely the kind
> of behaviour they want.

Hrm. So in your opinion, strncmp() could be used for all comparisons
by citext, rather than varstr_cmp()?

Thanks,

David