Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> ISTM that Tom's objection is really that citext is a hack, and that it
> will actually make it harder for us to get to a collation-based case
> insensitive comparison.
Well, it won't make it harder to implement collations; but I worry that
people who have been relying on the citext syntax will have a hard time
migrating to collations. Perhaps if someone did the legwork to
determine exactly what that conversion would look like, it would assuage
the fear.
regards, tom lane
