| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Radek Strnad <radek(dot)strnad(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: WIP patch: Collation support |
| Date: | 2008-09-02 12:00:08 |
| Message-ID: | 20080902120008.GE3664@svana.org |
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:50:47PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Radek Strnad wrote:
> >- new collations can be defined with command CREATE COLLATION <collation
> >name> FOR <character set specification> FROM <existing collation name>
> >[STRCOLFN <fn name>]
> >[ <pad characteristic> ] [ <case sensitive> ] [ LCCOLLATE <lc_collate> ]
> >[ LCCTYPE <lc_ctype> ]
>
> How do you plan to make a collation case sensitive or accent sensitive?
> I have previously commented that this is not a realistic view on how
> collations work. Since you are apparently planning to use the system
> locales, I don't see how you can make this work.
While it's true POSIX locales don't handle this, other collation
libraries do and we should support them if the user wants.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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