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>CREATE COLLATION</H1
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><H2
>Name</H2
>CREATE COLLATION -- define a new collation</DIV
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><PRE
CLASS="SYNOPSIS"
>CREATE COLLATION <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>name</I
></TT
> (
[ LOCALE = <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>locale</I
></TT
>, ]
[ LC_COLLATE = <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>lc_collate</I
></TT
>, ]
[ LC_CTYPE = <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>lc_ctype</I
></TT
> ]
)
CREATE COLLATION <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>name</I
></TT
> FROM <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>existing_collation</I
></TT
></PRE
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>Description</H2
><P
> <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE COLLATION</TT
> defines a new collation using
the specified operating system locale settings,
or by copying an existing collation.
</P
><P
> To be able to create a collation, you must
have <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>CREATE</TT
> privilege on the destination schema.
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><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>name</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The name of the collation. The collation name can be
schema-qualified. If it is not, the collation is defined in the
current schema. The collation name must be unique within that
schema. (The system catalogs can contain collations with the
same name for other encodings, but these are ignored if the
database encoding does not match.)
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>locale</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> This is a shortcut for setting <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>LC_COLLATE</TT
>
and <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>LC_CTYPE</TT
> at once. If you specify this,
you cannot specify either of those parameters.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>lc_collate</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> Use the specified operating system locale for
the <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>LC_COLLATE</TT
> locale category. The locale
must be applicable to the current database encoding.
(See <A
HREF="sql-createdatabase.html"
>CREATE DATABASE</A
> for the precise
rules.)
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>lc_ctype</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> Use the specified operating system locale for
the <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>LC_CTYPE</TT
> locale category. The locale
must be applicable to the current database encoding.
(See <A
HREF="sql-createdatabase.html"
>CREATE DATABASE</A
> for the precise
rules.)
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>existing_collation</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The name of an existing collation to copy. The new collation
will have the same properties as the existing one, but it
will be an independent object.
</P
></DD
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><H2
>Notes</H2
><P
> Use <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>DROP COLLATION</TT
> to remove user-defined collations.
</P
><P
> See <A
HREF="collation.html"
>Section 22.2</A
> for more information about collation
support in PostgreSQL.
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><H2
>Examples</H2
><P
> To create a collation from the operating system locale
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>fr_FR.utf8</TT
>
(assuming the current database encoding is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>UTF8</TT
>):
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>CREATE COLLATION french (LOCALE = 'fr_FR.utf8');</PRE
><P>
</P
><P
> To create a collation from an existing collation:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>CREATE COLLATION german FROM "de_DE";</PRE
><P>
This can be convenient to be able to use operating-system-independent
collation names in applications.
</P
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><H2
>Compatibility</H2
><P
> There is a <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE COLLATION</TT
> statement in the SQL
standard, but it is limited to copying an existing collation. The
syntax to create a new collation is
a <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> extension.
</P
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><A
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>ALTER COLLATION</A
>, <A
HREF="sql-dropcollation.html"
>DROP COLLATION</A
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