From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, 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 13:27:22 |
Message-ID: | 48D8EEBA.5000705@hagander.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:32:38PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>> "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?
>
> exec("locale -a") ...
>
> I suppose we'd need something else for Windows, but I'm sure there's
> a way.
IIRC, the data is in the registry. Should be enumerable somehow - we'll
have to do it platform specific of course, but it's not the first time
we'd do that for windows...
//Magnus
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