Howdy,
I'm working on a custom data type based on TEXT that does case-
insensitive, locale-aware comparisons, essentially by calling LOWER()
to compare values. I'll have more to ask about this later, when I want
to get feedback on the implementation. But right now I'm just writing
tests
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:18:26AM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
I'm working on a custom data type based on TEXT that does case-
insensitive, locale-aware comparisons, essentially by calling LOWER()
to compare values.
What makes this different from the citext project?
However, thanks to
On Jun 5, 2008, at 11:28, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:18:26AM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
I'm working on a custom data type based on TEXT that does case-
insensitive, locale-aware comparisons, essentially by calling LOWER()
to compare values.
What makes this
David E. Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Jun 5, 2008, at 11:28, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
What would you want postgresql to choose in this case.
I was thinking that the ::text should be cast to ::lctext, as that's
how `'a'::lctext = 'a'` works, but I keep going back and forth in my
On Jun 5, 2008, at 11:51, Tom Lane wrote:
I was thinking that the ::text should be cast to ::lctext, as that's
how `'a'::lctext = 'a'` works, but I keep going back and forth in my
mind. Maybe 'a'::lctext should not equal 'A'::text.
It seems to me that lctext is sort of like a more-constrained
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:37:28AM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
Whichever way
you want it, make that direction implicit and the other direction
assignment.
I'm sure I'm missing something simple here. How do I make it assignment?
# \h create cast
Command: CREATE CAST
Description:
On Jun 5, 2008, at 14:07, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
I'm sure I'm missing something simple here. How do I make it
assignment?
# \h create cast
Command: CREATE CAST
Description: define a new cast
Syntax:
snip
CREATE CAST (sourcetype AS targettype)
WITHOUT FUNCTION
[ AS ASSIGNMENT
