Re: ICU integration - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: ICU integration
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Msg-id CAM3SWZQZFL4k88UMdmwS3jkMvOTCbVG3O58a4vSOTpJHip7ZiA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to ICU integration  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> In initdb, I initialize the default collation set as before from the
> `locale -a` output, but also add all available ICU locales with a "%icu"
> appended (so "fr_FR%icu").  I suppose one could create a configuration
> option perhaps in initdb to change the default so that, say, "fr_FR"
> uses ICU and "fr_FR%posix" uses the old stuff.

I suspect that we'd be better off adding a mechanism for adding a new
collation after initdb runs, on a live production instance. Maybe that
part can come later.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan



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