Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On ons, 2011-03-09 at 18:07 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Now the downside of that is that a runtime failure won't give you an
>> parse error pointer to indicate which function is having trouble ...
>> but having an error pointer for an error that shouldn't be thrown in
>> the first place is small consolation.
> Sounds reasonable.
> Btw., the ultimate plan here was that functions or operators that would
> care about collation would be marked as such in pg_proc. That plan
> basically just ran out of time, but if you think it'd be useful, maybe
> we could reactivate it quickly.
I think it's worth doing at some point, but not right now. By the time
you get done adding support for the flag to CREATE FUNCTION, pg_dump,
etc, it's not a small task.
regards, tom lane
