Re: Add standard collation UNICODE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: Add standard collation UNICODE
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Msg-id 0d582110-50e6-3805-7e36-c7ee83ca4eba@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: Add standard collation UNICODE  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Add standard collation UNICODE  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
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On 3/28/23 06:07, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 23.03.23 21:16, Jeff Davis wrote:
>> Another thought: for ICU, do we want the default collation to be
>> UNICODE (root collation)? What we have now gets the default from the
>> environment, which is consistent with the libc provider.
>> 
>> But now that we have the UNICODE collation, it makes me wonder if we
>> should just default to that. The server's environment doesn't
>> necessarily say much about the locale of the data stored in it or the
>> locale of the applications accessing it.
> 
> As long as we still have to initialize the libc locale fields to some
> language, I think it would be less confusing to keep the ICU locale on
> the same language.

I definitely agree with that.

> If we ever manage to get rid of that, then I would also support making
> the ICU locale the root collation by default.

+1

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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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