Re: [WIP] patch - Collation at database level

"Tom Lane"  writes:

> Alvaro Herrera  writes:
>> Why does a collation have a schema?
>
> Because the SQL spec says so.  Also, if we don't put them in schemas,
> we have no nice way to distinguish built-in and user-defined collations,
> which creates a problem for pg_dump.

Out of curiosity, what is a "user-defined collation"? Are there SQL statements
to go around declaring what order code points should be sorted in? That seems
like it would be... quite tedious!

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