Thread: AW: Why Not MySQL?

AW: Why Not MySQL?

From
Zeugswetter Andreas SB
Date:
> "In a nutshell I want to use postgres as a back end to an access
> database. This means that all collation done by postgres musht be case
> insensitive including like clauses."
> 
> I left the all the spelling mistakes in place :)

Could a national char implementation that is case insensitive be a solution
here ?
Meaning: is it as simple as setting LC_COLLATE to another value and
configuring
--enable-locale ?
How far is Thomas with the nchar nvarchar types ?
I think national char and national char varying are the correct datatypes
for 
such behavior. Although I think the = operator is still case sensitive for
that datatype.
Replacing = or like for the char and varchar or text datatypes is probably
not possible, 
because it is used internally, but for nchar ... it should be.

Andreas


Re: AW: Why Not MySQL?

From
Thomas Lockhart
Date:
> How far is Thomas with the nchar nvarchar types ?

No code written, but I've been thinking about it a little. After 7.0
comes out and things settle down I'll get a discussion going unless
someone beats me to it.
                      - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California