Re: [HACKERS] [POC] hash partitioning

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:34 AM, Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hash partitioning will partition the data based on the hash value of the
> partition key. Does that require collation? Should we throw an error/warning if
> collation is specified in PARTITION BY clause?

Collation is only relevant for ordering, not equality.  Since hash
opclasses provide only equality, not ordering, it's not relevant here.
I'm not sure whether we should error out if it's specified or just
silently ignore it.  Maybe an ERROR is a good idea?  But not sure.

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