Re: [Review] Tests citext casts by David Wheeler. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sep 12, 2008, at 11:31, Tom Lane wrote:

> "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
>> Oh, and text_name seems to give me this error:
>
>>  ERROR:  compressed data is corrupt
>
>> That's when I have this cast:
>
>>  CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION citext(name)
>>  RETURNS citext
>>  AS 'text_name'
>>  LANGUAGE internal IMMUTABLE STRICT;
>
> I think you've got the direction backwards.

Oh. Duh.

> BTW, I removed the "Limitations" entry about I/O casting not working
> with citext; we fixed that, no?

Yes, we did. Thanks for the catch.

I've got another patch I'm working on adding support for "char" (and  
tests for char). Just to fill out a gap I saw in the casting coverage.  
I'm trying to get it done now. With that, AFAIK, citext will work just  
like text.

Best,

David