"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> I didn't consider the C locale. Do you know for a fact that it works
> there on win32 as well, or is that an assumption?
It should work. The only use of strcoll() in the backend is in
varstr_cmp which uses strncmp() instead for C locale. Lack of
working upper/lower is hardly a fatal objection, considering that
we never had that for UTF8 before 8.0 anyway. But you do have to
have working varstr_cmp.
> It would be good to have some way of detecting if it worked or not at
> the time of creation of the database. But I have no idea on how to do
> that in a reasonable way.
At this point I'd say that any combination of UTF8 encoding with a non
C/POSIX locale probably isn't going to work on Windows. Tatsuo, do you
know of other cases that will work?
regards, tom lane
