Re: Case insensitive collation - Mailing list pgsql-general

From the Microsoft site I learned

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188046(v=sql.105).aspx

that they combine collation and "ComparisonStyle" to a collation name.

I thought that case insensitivity had to be built into the collation, but apparently MS built case sensitivity in the database engine.

This would mean that Postgresql would need to build case (in)sensitivity into her engine as well.

Judging from the small amount of discussion on this subject, I am afraid this is not going to happen anytime soon. Alas, we will stay with SQL Server then (or maybe MySQL, but I will have to investigate).

Met vriendelijke groet,

Marcel van Pinxteren
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

Marcel van Pinxteren <marcel.van.pinxteren@gmail.com> writes:
> Therefore the question: are there plans to create a set of case
> insensitive, and maybe also accent insensitive collations in the near
> future?

Not from the Postgres project -- we just use the collations supplied by
the operating system.

                        regards, tom lane