Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Arguably, there is a misdesign here, however. Any function that does
> some kind of text-in-text search where citext could plausbily offer
> case-insensitive behavior will automatically fall back to the
> case-sensitive version if citext doesn't offer its own variant. The fix
> would technically need to be that citext offers its own variant of every
> potential such function, which is clearly not possible, or that casts
> between text and citext are more restricted, which would make citext
> nearly unusable.
Indeed. There are some hundreds of built-in functions that take one
or more text arguments; how many of them would need citext variants?
> Doesn't seem fixable. Collations are probably a better way of dealing
> with this.
Yeah, now that we can do non-deterministic collations, it seems like
citext is on the road to obsolescence. Do we have a documentation
example of how to build a simple CI collation?
regards, tom lane
