Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> The Unicode consortium calls our current behavior within comparisons
> "deterministic comparisons" -- it's something they're not so keen on:
> https://unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Deterministic_Comparison
> I suggest using their terminology for our current behavior.
Hm, it's not the greatest terminology perhaps, but if they're using it
then that makes it at least semi-standard. I can live with that.
> FWIW, I don't think that your IEEE analogy quite works, because you're
> talking about a property of a datatype. A collation is not intrinsic
> to any collatable datatype. Fortunately, we're not required to agree
> on what feels natural.
Right, which is exactly why it'd be a bad idea to use "natural" as the
name for this property ...
regards, tom lane
