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Subject: Setting "ucs_basic" as the default database collation
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Is there a way to specify "ucs_basic" (or the other "standard =
collations" [1]) collation as the default database collation at database =
creation time, rather than on a per-column or per-operation basis?

[1] =
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/collation.html#COLLATION-MANAGING-=
STANDARD=