Re: record identical operator

On 09/19/2013 12:55 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>> We have, as a community, gone to a fair amount of trouble  to make
>> > the concept of equality pluggable and allow multiple types of
>> > equality per type.  To me it seems the perfect tool to solve this
>> > problem.  Why the fuss?
> Because I don't understand why you need another equality than the
> default btree one, certainly.

Basically because 'word'::citext and 'Word'::citext are the same to your
brain but not to your eyeballs.

Unique indexes, for example, only need to please your brain.  Matviews
need to please your eyeballs.

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Vik