Re: contrib/citext versus collations - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: contrib/citext versus collations
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Msg-id 15559.1307403337@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: contrib/citext versus collations  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
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"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ...  One bit of infrastructure that might be a good idea is
>> a flag to indicate whether an equality operator's behavior is
>> potentially collation-dependent, so that we could avoid taking
>> performance hits in the normal case.

> That sounds like a good idea.

BTW, it struck me shortly after sending this that we'd already discussed
the idea of a flag in pg_proc showing whether a function pays attention
to collation.  We could of course use that for this purpose.
        regards, tom lane


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