On mån, 2011-01-17 at 15:33 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > > On mån, 2011-01-17 at 07:35 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> In fact, aren't there cases where the *length test* also fails? > > > Currently, two text values are only equal of strcoll() considers them > > equal and the bits are the same. So this patch is safe in that regard. > > > There is, however, some desire to loosen this. > > That isn't ever going to happen, unless you'd like to give up hash joins > and hash aggregation on text values.
Since citext exists and supports hashing, it's obviously possible nevertheless. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
