Re: PATCH: CITEXT 2.0 v2

Andrew Dunstan napsal(a):
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> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
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>> 2) contrib vs. pgFoundry
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>> There is unresolved answer if we want to have this in contrib or not. 
>> Good to mention that citext type will be obsoleted with full collation 
>> implementation in a future. I personally prefer to keep it on 
>> pgFoundry because it is temporally workaround (by my opinion), but I 
>> can live with contrib module as well.
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> Is there a concrete plan to get to full collation support (i.e. per 
> column) in any known time frame? If not, then I think a citext module 
> would be acceptable.

Collation per database should be part of 8.4. Radek Strnad works on it as a SoC 
project. He plans to continue on this work and implement full support as his 
Master of Thesis in 2-3 years time frame.
    Zdenek


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