On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Another question is "what is the purpose of a database"? To me it
> would
> be quite the wrong thing for the DB to not store what is presented, as
> long as it's considered legal. Normalization of legal variant forms
> seems pretty questionable. So I'm with the camp that says this is the
> application's responsibility.
Can `convert()` normalize strings?
Best,
David