Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?

Asko Oja wrote:
>
> About citext. Skype is using various hacks and workarounds because 
> there was no such type in PostgreSQL and i understand others also. To 
> me it seems to be choice between couple of developers doing it once 
> and for all and hundreds of developers inventing the wheel every day 
> and not to mention hours spent debugging over various layers of 
> applications. It just shows how hackers have totally different point 
> of view on things from people who are using the program:)  But again i 
> am just a manager and should be lower than grass in hackers list :)
>
>

Plenty of us who are hackers are also users.

ISTM that Tom's objection is really that citext is a hack, and that it 
will actually make it harder for us to get to a collation-based case 
insensitive comparison. I think if we adopt that view then we need to 
form a plan for doing this right, and soon, as it is a significant 
current pain point, especially for people migrating from other databases.

cheers

andrew