On 09/26/2010 09:37 AM, Greg Stark wrote:
> We could have a
> encoded_text data type which includes both the encoding and the string
> and which any comparison function automatically handles conversion
> based on the encoding of the collation requested -- but I wouldn't
> want that to be the default text datatype. It would impose a lot of
> overhead on the basic text operations and magnify the effects of
> choosing the wrong collation.
Yeah, but it would be a nice gadget to have.
cheers
andrew
