Re: Backpatching of "Teach the regular expression functions to do case-insensitive matching" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Backpatching of "Teach the regular expression functions to do case-insensitive matching"
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Msg-id 20845.1305146823@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Backpatching of "Teach the regular expression functions to do case-insensitive matching"  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Backpatching of "Teach the regular expression functions to do case-insensitive matching"  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On tis, 2011-05-10 at 18:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The lack of initdb support for getting more-or-less-standard collation
>> entries into pg_collation on Windows seems to be the major missing
>> piece from here (dunno if Peter is aware of others).  If we don't fix
>> that before release, we're going to regret it anyway IMO, because of
>> the inevitable tide of questions/complaints from Windows users trying
>> to use the collation feature.  We've already seen at least one such
>> from a beta tester.

> Well, someone who wants it will have to do it.  It's pretty simple, but
> not simple enough to code it blindly.  If someone wants to do it, I can
> tell them exactly what to do.

Hm, do you know how to enumerate the available locales on Windows?
(Still not volunteering, since I couldn't test it, but that's the only
missing piece of information AFAIK.)
        regards, tom lane


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