Re: insensitive collations

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> So this doesn't actually make the collation case-insensitive or
> anything, it just allows a library-provided collation that is, say,
> case-insensitive to actually work that way.

That's great news!

> So maybe "insensitive" isn't the right name for this flag, but we
> can think about that.

To me it seems more natural to find a name for the other behavior, the
one that consists of overwriting the locale-sensitive equality with
the result of the byte-wise comparison. AFAIU the flag is meant
to say: "don't do that".

Some ideas that come to mind:

as an enum
CREATE COLLATION ... ( [EQUALITY = 'natural' | 'bytewise' ] )
as a boolean
CREATE COLLATION ... ( [NATURAL_EQUALITY = true | false ] )
defaulting to false
or
CREATE COLLATION ... ( [BYTEWISE_EQUALITY = true | false ] )
defaulting to true

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