Re: Order changes in PG16 since ICU introduction

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Sandro Santilli <strk(at)kbt(dot)io>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Regina Obe <lr(at)pcorp(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Order changes in PG16 since ICU introduction
Date: 2023-05-09 08:25:53
Message-ID: 20230509082553.yjikrxn54mi6hezc@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2023-Apr-24, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> The GUC settings lc_collate and lc_ctype are from a time when those locale
> settings were cluster-global. When we made those locale settings
> per-database (PG 8.4), we kept them as read-only. As of PG 15, you can use
> ICU as the per-database locale provider, so what is being attempted in the
> above example is already meaningless before PG 16, since you need to look
> into pg_database to find out what is really happening.
>
> I think we should just remove the GUC parameters lc_collate and lc_ctype.

I agree with removing these in v16, since they are going to become more
meaningless and confusing.

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Álvaro Herrera 48°01'N 7°57'E — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

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