"Kevin McArthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is acceptable to create a unique constraint, however, we cannot mark
> the column unique, without defining btree operators, which clearly are not
> possible for sorting. Is there any way to base the operators based on the
> text representation of the type for strict equality (not to be confused with
> same or equivilent) and thus use that not as an ordering method, but as a
> simple equality for uniqueness.
Translation: you do know how to define a sortable order (ie, generate
the text version and compare); you're just too lazy to create the
operators to do it ...
regards, tom lane
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