Re: Patch for collation using ICU - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Patch for collation using ICU
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Msg-id 12273.1115570807@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Patch for collation using ICU  (Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>)
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Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes:
>> I'm confused. I thought the ICU patches is intended for using on
>> broken locale platforms?

> It will sort correctly in *one* locale, using ICU. You still cannot mix 
> different locales in the same database cluster, the collation locale is 
> still fixed at initdb time, unfortunately.

I thought the point of using ICU was to be able to dig out from under
that restriction?  It's a bit of a large pill to swallow if we will
still have to throw it away someday to become SQL spec compliant.
        regards, tom lane


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