Re: Case insensitive collation

From the Microsoft site I learned
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188046(v=sql.105).aspx
that they combine collation and "ComparisonStyle" to a collation name.

I thought that case insensitivity had to be built into the collation, but
apparently MS built case sensitivity in the database engine.
This would mean that Postgresql would need to build case (in)sensitivity
into her engine as well.

Judging from the small amount of discussion on this subject, I am afraid
this is not going to happen anytime soon. Alas, we will stay with SQL
Server then (or maybe MySQL, but I will have to investigate).

Met vriendelijke groet,

Marcel van Pinxteren
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Marcel van Pinxteren <marcel(dot)van(dot)pinxteren(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Therefore the question: are there plans to create a set of case
> > insensitive, and maybe also accent insensitive collations in the near
> > future?
>
> Not from the Postgres project -- we just use the collations supplied by
> the operating system.
>
> regards, tom lane
>