Re: Change initdb default to the builtin collation provider

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Anders Åstrand <anders(at)449(dot)se>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Change initdb default to the builtin collation provider
Date: 2026-03-10 14:55:25
Message-ID: 0b88b0e9765879118df8c6c61434c2068175cb5b.camel@j-davis.com
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On Tue, 2026-03-10 at 09:37 +0100, Anders Åstrand wrote:
>
> I'd say that this would be a _good_ feature of choosing a generic
> unicode
> collation by default. It's immediately obvious that you need to do
> something
> if you want ordering according to some specific language's rules.

That's a good point: if the default is not subtle, then the user is
likely to notice quickly, and consider it more detail what they
actually want. A default that is subtly wrong might go unnoticed until
it's too late to change.

>
Regards,
Jeff Davis

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