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Defaults in CREATE COLLATION DDL [DOC28] #37

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firebird-automations opened this issue Apr 24, 2008 · 2 comments
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Defaults in CREATE COLLATION DDL [DOC28] #37

firebird-automations opened this issue Apr 24, 2008 · 2 comments
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Submitted by: Ain Valtin (ain)

CREATE COLLATION has optional parts

[ NO PAD | PAD SPACE ]
[ CASE SENSITIVE | CASE INSENSITIVE ]
[ ACCENT SENSITIVE | ACCENT INSENSITIVE ]

but in 2.1 Release notes it isn't mentioned what are the defaults when one doesn't specify them. Example in "The UNICODE Collations" chapter suggest that for case sensitivity the default is CASE SENSITIVE, but it should be spelled out in "The CREATE COLLATION Statement" chapter for all options.
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Modified by: @paulvink

assignee: Paul Vinkenoog [ paulvink ] => Helen Borrie [ helebor ]

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Commented by: @helebor

AFAIU, according to the convention we (and other vendors) use for syntax patterns, the first member of a set of interchangeable optional attributes is always the default, i.e., it will be used if the attribute is not explicitly declared otherwise. Dmitry, please confirm or deny.

In the interests of self-documentation, I would always recommend explicitly declaring the attributes, even if the default is the intended choice.

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