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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Why do indexes and sorts use the database collation?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 05:48:38 +0100
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On Mon, 2023-11-13 at 22:36 +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> Perhaps we could allow the PK index to have a different collation, say
> by supporting something like this:
> 
>   ALTER TABLE distributors ADD PRIMARY KEY (dist_id COLLATE "C");

An appealing idea!  While at it, we could add an INCLUDE clause...

The risk here would be extending standard syntax in a way that might
possibly conflict with future changes to the standard.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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