Re: How to pass around collation information

From: David Christensen <david(at)endpoint(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to pass around collation information
Date: 2010-06-03 12:30:56
Message-ID: 83AAD8CD-1BF0-4EE4-8963-A71726A85BFF@endpoint.com
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On Jun 3, 2010, at 2:43 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On ons, 2010-06-02 at 16:56 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> But in the end the only purpose of setting it on a column is to set
>> which one will be used for operations on that column. And the user
>> might still override it for a particular query.
>
> Of course. I'm just saying that it *can* be useful to attach a
> collation to a column definition, rather than only allowing it to be
> specified along with the sort operation.

How does collation relate to per-table/column encodings? For that matter, are per-table/column encodings spec, and/or something that we're looking to implement down the line?

Regards,

David
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David Christensen
End Point Corporation
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