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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Case Insensitive Data Type
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In response to Re: Case Insensitive Data Type  ("Russell Black" <russell.black@iarchives.com>)
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"Russell Black" <russell.black@iarchives.com> writes:
> I'd be happy with something which was just plain case-insensitive.
> Given that, I would imagine it would be much less than 100 lines of C code,
> and could probably be done in plpgsql.

You'll still have to get your hands dirty with C.  AFAIK there isn't any
way to define I/O functions for new datatypes in any of the PL languages
we have.

            regards, tom lane

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