Re: insensitive collations

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: insensitive collations
Date: 2019-01-10 07:49:48
Message-ID: 91759904-5093-de4c-1e54-e1eb18174210@2ndquadrant.com
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On 09/01/2019 22:01, Daniel Verite wrote:
>> I don't see anything wrong here. The collation says that both values
>> are equal, so which one is returned is implementation-dependent.
> Is it, but it's impractical if the product of seemingly the same GROUP BY
> flip-flops between its different valid results. If it can't be avoided, then
> okay. If it can be avoided at little cost, then it would be better to do it.

But there is no concept of which one of these is the preferred variant,
so I don't see how the system is supposed to pick one and then stick to
it across separate query invocations.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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