Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The other approach we could take is to define text comparison as
> yielding equality only for bitwise-equal strings.  If strcoll() returns
> zero then ask strcmp() for a second opinion.  

Fwiw this has come up before on this list and it was discovered this is
effectively what Perl does, probably for similar motivations wrt to hashes. 

I think it's probably the least bad solution, even if it's not really the
right thing.

-- 
greg


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