Re: Collation versioning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Collation versioning
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Msg-id 1046810.1604440349@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Collation versioning  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Collation versioning  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>)
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Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 4:38 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 1:51 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> FWIW, the attached does fix the issue for me.  It basically just calls
>>> the function that converts the windows-type "English_New Zealand.1252"
>>> locale name string into, e.g. "en_NZ".

> We want the same algorithm that Windows uses internally to resolve the
> old style name to a collation; in other words we probably want
> something more like the code path that they took away in VS2015 :-(.

Yeah.  In the short run, though, it'd be nice to un-break the buildfarm.
Maybe we could push David's code or something similar, and then
contemplate better ways at leisure?

            regards, tom lane



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