> > I've been think this for a while too. What about collation? If we add
> > new chaset A and B, and each has 10 collations then we are going to
> > have 20 new types? That seems overkill to me.
>
> Well, afaict all of the operations we would ask of a type we will be
> required to provide for character sets and collations. So ordering,
> conversions, operators, index methods, etc etc are all required. It
> *does* seem like a lot of work, but the type system is specifically
> designed to do exactly this. Lifting those capabilities out of the type
> system only to reimplement them elsewhere seems all trouble with no
> upside.
If so, what about the "coercibility" property?
The standard defines four distinct coercibility properties. So in
above my example, actually you are going to define 80 new types?
(also a collation could be either "PAD SPACE" or "NO PAD". So you
might have 160 new types).
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Tatsuo Ishii