On Jun 1, 2008, at 21:08, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 1. Does the use of the tolower() C function in the citext data type
>> on
>> pgfoundry basically give me the same results as using lower() in my
>> SQL has for all these years?
>
> [ broken record... ] Kinda depends on your locale. However,
> tolower()
> is 100% guaranteed not to work for multibyte encodings, so citext is
> quite useless if you're using UTF8. This is fixable, no doubt, but
> it's not fixed in the project as it stands.
Would the use of str_tolower() in formatting.c fix that?
Thanks,
David
