On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On fre, 2010-05-28 at 15:03 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I think we need to think of the comparison operators as ternary, and
>> the COLLATE syntax applied to columns or present in queries as various
>> ways of setting defaults or explicit overrides for what the third
>> argument will end up being.
>
> How could this extend to things like isalpha() or upper() that would
> need access to ctype information?
Good question. :-(
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