Re: Per-column collation

From: Alexandre Riveira <alexandre(at)objectdata(dot)com(dot)br>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Per-column collation
Date: 2010-12-06 19:54:27
Message-ID: 4CFD3F73.8000802@objectdata.com.br
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Please

It would be very important to us that the Brazilian LIKE collate worked
with, and possible case-insensitive and accent-insensitive

Tank's

Alexandre Riveira
Brazil

Peter Eisentraut escreveu:
> On mån, 2010-12-06 at 10:01 -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>
>> I've been wondering if this patch will support case-insensitve
>> collations. If so, then citext should probably be revised to use one.
>>
>
> This has been touch upon several times during the discussions on past
> patches.
>
> Essentially, the current patch only arranges that you can specify a sort
> order for data. The system always breaks ties using a binary
> comparison. This could conceivably be changed, but it's a separate
> problem. Some of the necessary investigation work has presumably
> already been done in the context of citext.
>
>
>
>

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