Re: Mysql to postgres

Thankyou all for your feedback. Unfortunately, I think I may have to go down
the lower() road of changing the code.

It will be far more time consuming, however there are other columns that are
char,varchar,text etc.

Will definitely keep the citext contribution in mind for another time.

Theo

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:decibel(at)decibel(dot)org]
Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2005 4:57 AM
To: Tom Lane
Cc: Theo Galanakis; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Mysql to postgres

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 03:02:01AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think you could probably also do it by building a locale whose
> comparisons are case-insensitive, but I don't know enough about
> locales to be sure.

FWIW, this is how old versions of Sybase handled case insensitivity. Pretty
much every other database I've worked on though, you want to go the
lower()/lcase() route.

citext is interesting; I'll have to look into that for
stats.distributed.net. Another example of how incredibly extensible
PostgreSQL is.
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