Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Markus Wichitill <mawic@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > The following bug has been logged online:
> >
> > Bug reference: ? ? ?5364
> > Logged by: ? ? ? ? ?Markus Wichitill
> > Email address: ? ? ?mawic@gmx.de
> > PostgreSQL version: 8.4.2
> > Operating system: ? Linux, Win7
> > Description: ? ? ? ?citext behavior when type not in public schema
> > Details:
> >
> > Comparisons with columns of type citext silently work case-sensitively
> > without any error message, unless the search_path contains "public", even if
> > the type is not located in "public", but in the same schema as the table
> > using it.
>
> Interestingly we recently got another report of this same problem.
> Tom did some analysis of it here:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2010-03/msg00017.php
I have documented this citext limitation with the attached, applied
patch.
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ None of us is going to be here forever. +
Index: doc/src/sgml/citext.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/citext.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -c -c -r1.2 citext.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/citext.sgml 12 Sep 2008 18:29:49 -0000 1.2
--- doc/src/sgml/citext.sgml 3 Jun 2010 03:02:48 -0000
***************
*** 205,210 ****
--- 205,219 ----
will need two indexes if you want both types of searches to be fast.
</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The schema containing the <type>citext</> operators must be
+ in the current <varname>search_path</> (typically <literal>public</>);
+ if it is not, a normal case-sensitive <type>text</> comparison
+ is performed.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
