On Sep 24, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
That might be nice, but I'd be wary of a geometric multiplication
of text types. We already have TEXT and CITEXT; what if we had your
NTEXT (normalized text) but I wanted it to also be case-insensitive?
Actually, I don't think it's necessarily a good idea at all. If a
user inputs a perfectly valid piece of UTF8 text, we should be able
to give it back to them exactly, whether or not it's in normalized
form. The normalized forms are useful for certain comparison
purposes, but they don't affect the validity of the text. CITEXT
doesn't mangle what is stored, just how it's compared.
Right, I don't think there's a need for a normalized TEXT type.
Best,
David
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