Re: Change initdb default to the builtin collation provider - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Change initdb default to the builtin collation provider
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Msg-id 0b88b0e9765879118df8c6c61434c2068175cb5b.camel@j-davis.com
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In response to Re: Change initdb default to the builtin collation provider  ("Anders Åstrand" <anders@449.se>)
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On Tue, 2026-03-10 at 09:37 +0100, Anders Åstrand wrote:
>
> I'd say that this would be a _good_ feature of choosing a generic
> unicode
> collation by default. It's immediately obvious that you need to do
> something
> if you want ordering according to some specific language's rules.

That's a good point: if the default is not subtle, then the user is
likely to notice quickly, and consider it more detail what they
actually want. A default that is subtly wrong might go unnoticed until
it's too late to change.

>
Regards,
    Jeff Davis




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