Re: WIP patch: Collation support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: WIP patch: Collation support
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Msg-id 48D7A81B.7050602@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: WIP patch: Collation support  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> What might be sensible to ask is whether it is ever actually reasonable
> for LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to have different settings.  If we were
> willing to enforce that they be the same, we could reduce this to just
> the standard syntax COLLATE=something and be done with it.  Not being
> much of a user of anything except C locale, I might be the wrong person
> to opine on this; but it seems to me that having them different is far
> more likely to be a mistake than desirable.

Agreed, it doesn't make much sense. I find it hard to imagine anyone 
doing that on purpose, but we have supported it at initdb time for ages.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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