"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)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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