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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Well, it won't make it harder to implement collations; but I worry that
> people who have been relying on the citext syntax will have a hard time
> migrating to collations.  Perhaps if someone did the legwork to
> determine exactly what that conversion would look like, it would assuage
> the fear.
>
>   

I kind of assumed we would do it by implementing the COLLATE clause of 
the CREATE DOMAIN statement.

cheers

andrew