| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Radek Strnad <radek(dot)strnad(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: WIP patch: Collation support |
| Date: | 2008-09-23 10:51:09 |
| Message-ID: | 20080923105109.GD6986@svana.org |
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:32:38PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> >You're assuming collations are denumerable. They're not. There is no way
> >to find the list of available collations/locales. You may be able to
> >guess a few but certainly not all of them.
>
> "locale -a" manages to do it somehow...
Sure, by (on glibc) opening the binary archive and parsing it and then
trying to reverse lookup the alias list. We could ofcourse program
something for each platform to determine a list but who is going to
maintain that? How do you handle the list changing?
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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