Re: Collation versions on Windows (help wanted, apply within) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Munro
Subject Re: Collation versions on Windows (help wanted, apply within)
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Msg-id CA+hUKGJHoZHYCA4d4aWpUYYZ0D+H598UYc_OqVwbENhaeURQ0A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Collation versions on Windows (help wanted, apply within)  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Collation versions on Windows (help wanted, apply within)  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 12:44 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> The reason for returning an empty string for "C" and "POSIX" is the
> following comment for get_collation_actual_version():
>
>  * A particular provider must always either return a non-NULL string or return
>  * NULL (if it doesn't support versions).  It must not return NULL for some
>  * collcollate and not NULL for others.
>
> I'm not sure why, or if that really makes sense.

Peter E, do you have any thoughts on this question?



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