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Re: Case-insensitive select

From	Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.databases.postgresql
Subject	Re: Case-insensitive select
Date	2011-08-31 23:00 +0000
Organization	solani.org
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:42:40 +0100, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:

> There's a case-insensitive string type in contrib (the "Additional
> Supplied Modules"):

There are unpleasant surprises with that, like the fact that unique index 
of that type is not case insensitive. Standard varchar data type, 
combined with a function index or a trigger should be more than adequate.

-- 
http://mgogala.byethost5.com

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  Re: Case-insensitive select Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2011-08-31 20:42 +0100
    Re: Case-insensitive select Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2011-08-31 23:00 +0000
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        Re: Case-insensitive select Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 12:57 +0000
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                Re: Case-insensitive select Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2011-09-06 02:21 +0000
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