Re: Locale by default?

> If people set their locale to something other than C they have evidently
> judged that locale is not useless. Why would they set it otherwise?

As Hiroshi pointed out, the broken thing is the LC_COLLATE, other
things in the local are working.

> I
> don't think hiding away a feature because you think it's useless is a good
> idea. If people don't like it, allow them to turn it off. If there are
> potential problems related to the feature, document them.

I don't object the idea letting users turn it off. I said we need a
way to turn it off in the configuration/compile time.

> Face it, everything has locale support these day. PostgreSQL is one of
> the few packages that even has it as an option to turn it off. Users of
> binary packages of PostgreSQL are all invariably faced with locale
> features. So it's not like sudden unasked-for locale support is going to
> be a major shock.

I would say it's a misunderstanding that the locale (more precisely
LC_COLLATE) is usefull for *any* Language/encodings.
--
Tatsuo Ishii