Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: Multiversion page api (inplace upgrade)

"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> (Likely counterexample: adding collation info to text values.)

I don't think the argument really needs an example, but I would be pretty
upset if we proposed tagging every text datum with a collation. Encoding
perhaps, though that seems like a bad idea to me on performance grounds, but
collation is not a property of the data at all.

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