Re: Why Not MySQL?

The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
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>On Tue, 2 May 2000, Tim Uckun wrote:
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>> If I can't get my questions answered about case sensitivity issues here
>> (no help so far) I will most likely to use it myself. 
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>What questions? *raised eyebrow*  
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>

The question dealt with trying to acieve case insensitive collation in postgres. Specifically about possibly rewriting the text_cmp or the varchareq functions. I am wondering what kind of mayhem that might cause. I was told by someone who tried it that it's possible to overload the ~~ (like) operator but that dropping the = operator cripples the database so that it's not possible to overload the = operator. 

As to why I might want to do this I'll answer that one in response to another question :)
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