Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 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.
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greg