Re: How to pass around collation information

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to pass around collation information
Date: 2010-06-03 15:46:20
Message-ID: AANLkTinHZav655HKt6DGnlQsyWw5N4CdTbtaXRtVuArJ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> 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.

Oh, I agree with that, for sure.

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Robert Haas
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