On Jul 28, 2008, at 18:31, Tom Lane wrote:

To upgrade from citext, I expect
that what one will have to do is to alter the column to change its
data type from citext to TEXT + collation.

What I'm wondering is how closely that will match the semantics of the
contrib module ...

By "semantics" do you mean behavior, in terms of how closely operator comparisons will return the same results? I have no idea, personally, but it's no worse then TEXT, is it? The use of TEXT and LOWER() being what people are doing now?

Best,

David

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