Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Because that would corrupt indexes on shared tables. (It might be >> possible to finesse that, but it's not a no-brainer.)
> Oh, I hadn't thought of that. The problem isn't encoding, because we > handle that already, but differen representations of time and stuff? No, the problem is sort ordering of indexes on textual columns. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match