36.11. collation_character_set_​applicability

The view collation_character_set_applicability identifies which character set the available collations are applicable to. In PostgreSQL, there is only one character set per database (see explanation in Section 36.7), so this view does not provide much useful information.

Table 36.9. collation_character_set_applicability Columns

Column Type

Description

collation_catalog sql_identifier

Name of the database containing the collation (always the current database)

collation_schema sql_identifier

Name of the schema containing the collation

collation_name sql_identifier

Name of the default collation

character_set_catalog sql_identifier

Character sets are currently not implemented as schema objects, so this column is null

character_set_schema sql_identifier

Character sets are currently not implemented as schema objects, so this column is null

character_set_name sql_identifier

Name of the character set