Re: Fixing row comparison semantics
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-12-24T14:38:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > One thing my COLLATE patch does is distinguish between collations and > operator classes. So the reverse operator class issue disappears > because it's just a collation and doesn't need a operator class > (although it won't break anything, see below). Are you suggesting that COLLATE will impose comparison semantics on all datatypes including non-string types? If so, I'd be interested to know what you have in mind. If not, claiming that it makes the issue go away is nonsensical. regards, tom lane