On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 03:33:53PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> In summary, we're currently attaching the use of SortSupport to the
> wrong thing. We're treating this UTF-16 business as something that
> implies a broad OS/platform restriction, when in fact it should be
> treated as implying a restriction for one particular collation
> provider only (a collation provider that happens to be built into
> Windows, but isn't really special to us).
>
> Attached patch shows what I'm getting at. This is untested, since I
> don't use Windows. Proceed with caution.
This is currently a v10 open item, but I think it doesn't qualify for that
treatment. It's merely an opportunity for optimization, albeit an
attractively-simple one.
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