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In the dim past we figured it was okay to ignore collations when combining UNION set-operation nodes into a single N-way UNION operation. I believe that was fine at the time, but it stopped being fine when we added nondeterministic collations: the semantics of distinct-ness are affected by those. v17 made it even less fine by allowing per-child sorting operations to be merged via MergeAppend, although I think we accidentally avoided any live bug from that. Add a check that collations match before deciding that two UNION nodes are equivalent. I also failed to resist the temptation to comment plan_union_children() a little better. Back-patch to all supported branches (v13 now), since they all have nondeterministic collations. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3605568.1731970579@sss.pgh.pa.us
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