On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:57:48AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Another option would be to create a new datatype 'itext' which works > like text except it compares case insensetively. PostgreSQL is flexible > like that. Here's something to get you started, see below for example. > > http://svana.org/kleptog/pgsql/type_itext.sql > > At the moment it uses SQL functions for the comparisons, for production > you'd probably want to have them in C for performance. Also, it's not > pg_dump safe (no operator class support).
Oops, turns out there *is* a CREATE OPERATOR CLASS but my version of psql doesn't have it in command completion. And when you use that it *is* saved by pg_dump. Problem solved. I've tested various things, DISTINCT works, ORDER BY works, GROUP BY works. Neat huh? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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