Re: PATCH: CITEXT 2.0 v3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: PATCH: CITEXT 2.0 v3
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Msg-id CD046CA0-31F7-4718-8930-AEDEEA057E39@kineticode.com
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In response to Re: PATCH: CITEXT 2.0 v3  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Jul 13, 2008, at 10:19, Tom Lane wrote:

> "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
>> On Jul 12, 2008, at 12:17, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> * You should provide binary I/O (send/receive) functions, if you  
>>> want
>>> this to be an industrial-strength module.  It's easy since you can
>>> piggyback on text's.
>
>> I'm confused. Is that not what the citextin and citextout functions  
>> are?
>
> No, those are text I/O.  You need analogues of textsend and textrecv
> too.

Okay.

>> Thanks. Added to my list.
>
> BTW, actually a better idea would be to put citext.sql at the front of
> the list and just run the whole main regression series with it  
> present.
> typ_sanity and oidjoins might possibly find issues too.

Also added to my list. :-)

> Some (not all) of your CREATE OPERATOR commands have things like
>
>    NEGATOR   = OPERATOR(!~),
>
> which seems unnecessary, and is certainly inconsistent.

Oh, I hadn't even noticed those; I'd just copied them from citext 1.  
Fixed!

Best,

David



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