Re: Backpatching of "Teach the regular expression functions to do case-insensitive matching"

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Backpatching of "Teach the regular expression functions to do case-insensitive matching"
Date: 2011-05-11 20:47:03
Message-ID: 20845.1305146823@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On tis, 2011-05-10 at 18:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The lack of initdb support for getting more-or-less-standard collation
>> entries into pg_collation on Windows seems to be the major missing
>> piece from here (dunno if Peter is aware of others). If we don't fix
>> that before release, we're going to regret it anyway IMO, because of
>> the inevitable tide of questions/complaints from Windows users trying
>> to use the collation feature. We've already seen at least one such
>> from a beta tester.

> Well, someone who wants it will have to do it. It's pretty simple, but
> not simple enough to code it blindly. If someone wants to do it, I can
> tell them exactly what to do.

Hm, do you know how to enumerate the available locales on Windows?
(Still not volunteering, since I couldn't test it, but that's the only
missing piece of information AFAIK.)

regards, tom lane

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