Re: OCTET_LENGTH is wrong

Tatsuo Ishii writes:

> > I don't think so.  The sort order is independent of the character
> > encoding, and vice versa.  It must be, because
>
> This seems different from SQL's CREATE COLLATION syntax.
> >From SQL99's CREATE COLLATION definition:
>
>               CREATE COLLATION <collation name> FOR
>               <character set specification>
>                 FROM <existing collation name>
>                   [ <pad characteristic> ]
>
> So it seems a collation depends on a character set.

I see.  But that really doesn't have anything to do with reality.  In
fact, it completely undermines the transparency of the character set
encoding that we're probably trying to achieve.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net