Re: Improving collation-dependent indexes in system catalogs

On 2018-Dec-15, Tom Lane wrote:

> I wrote:
> > While fooling with the idea of making type "name" collation
> > aware, it occurred to me that there's a better, more general
> > answer, which is to insist that collation-aware system catalog
> > columns must be marked with C collation.

> Concretely, this ...

Looks sane in a quick once-over.

I notice that some information_schema view columns end up with C
collation after this patch, and others remain with default collation.
Is that sensible?  (I think the only two cases where this might matter
at all are information_schema.parameters.parameter_name,
information_schema.routines.external_name and
information_schema.foreign_servers.foreign_server_type.)

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