"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Jul 3, 2008, at 09:53, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>>> Thanks. What would citext_hash() look like? I don't see a text_hash() to
>>> borrow from anywhere in src/.
>>
>> See hash_any(). I assume the difficulty is making sure that
>> hash("FOO") = hash("foo") ...
>
> Great, big help, thank you. So does this look sensible?
>
> txt = cilower( PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP(0) );
> str = VARDATA_ANY(txt);
>
> result = hash_any((unsigned char *) str, VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR(txt));
I thought your data type implemented a locale dependent collation, not just
a case insensitive collation. That is, does this hash agree with your
citext_eq on strings like "foo bar" <=> "foobar" and "fooß" <=> "fooss" ?
You may have to use strxfrm
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