"Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org> writes:
> To me it seems more natural to find a name for the other behavior, the
> one that consists of overwriting the locale-sensitive equality with
> the result of the byte-wise comparison. AFAIU the flag is meant
> to say: "don't do that".
> Some ideas that come to mind:
> as an enum
> CREATE COLLATION ... ( [EQUALITY = 'natural' | 'bytewise' ] )
> as a boolean
> CREATE COLLATION ... ( [NATURAL_EQUALITY = true | false ] )
> defaulting to false
> or
> CREATE COLLATION ... ( [BYTEWISE_EQUALITY = true | false ] )
> defaulting to true
I don't really find it "natural" for equality to consider obviously
distinct values to be equal. As a counterexample, the fact that IEEE
arithmetic treats 0 and -0 as equal seems to cause about as many problems
as it solves, and newcomers to float math certainly don't find it
"natural". So I object to that particular naming. Perhaps we could
do something around "uniqueness"? That is, collations could have
a boolean property UNIQUE, default true, or something like that.
regards, tom lane
