On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> 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.
Oh, I agree with that, for sure.
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