Tom Lane wrote:
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> All the argument here is based on the premise that we should have
> database-level collation specifications, which AFAICS is not required
> nor suggested by the SQL spec. I wonder why we are allowing a
> nonstandard half-measure to drive our thinking, rather than solving the
> real problem which is column-level collations.
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Agreed. Are we even sure that we want per-database collations as a
half-way house? Unless we can be sure that we want all the required
catalog changes for the full requirement, it seems to me a rather messy
way of getting to where we want to go.
cheers
andrew
