On Jun 3, 2010, at 2:43 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On ons, 2010-06-02 at 16:56 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> But in the end the only purpose of setting it on a column is to set
>> which one will be used for operations on that column. And the user
>> might still override it for a particular query.
>
> Of course. I'm just saying that it *can* be useful to attach a
> collation to a column definition, rather than only allowing it to be
> specified along with the sort operation.
How does collation relate to per-table/column encodings? For that matter, are per-table/column encodings spec, and/or
somethingthat we're looking to implement down the line?
Regards,
David
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