Re: Patch for collation using ICU

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, John Hansen <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Patch for collation using ICU
Date: 2005-03-26 16:16:01
Message-ID: 20050326080458.E63597@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> I've noticed a couple of things about using the ICU patch vs. pristine
> pg-8.0.1:
>
> - ORDER BY is case insensitive when using ICU. This might break the SQL
> standard (?), but sure is nice :)

Err, I think if your system implements strcoll correctly 8.0.1 can do this
if the chosen collation is set up that way (or at least naive tests I've
done seem to imply that). Or are you speaking about C locale?

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