Re: case insensitive sorting & searching in oracle 10g

Stephan Szabo wrote:
>>in oracle 10g, you can issue:
>>
>>  ALTER SESSION SET NLS_COMP = ansi;
>>  ALTER SESSION SET NLS_SORT = binary_ci;
>>
>>do you think this is an elegant solution for case insensitive sorting &
>>searching? is there interest in seeing this in postgres?
>
> IMHO, no on both questions.  There's always danger on relying on the
> value of session variables in general in that an application must either
> set the variable immediately before sending queries that use it (breaking
> the transparency) or must be willing to deal with the fact that it might
> not be what you expect.  For the second, I don't see how this really does
> much that the standard spec collation stuff can't do better and I'd think
> that'd be a much better route to go.

Could you point me where in the archives can I read more? I'm having a
bit of trouble finding discussion on this. Thanks.

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dave