Re: Create collation reporting the ICU locale display name

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Create collation reporting the ICU locale display name
Date: 2019-09-13 15:09:52
Message-ID: 23271.1568387392@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 9:57 AM Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org> wrote:
>> An advantage of this approach is that you may execute the
>> function before creating the collation, instead of creating the
>> collation, realizing there was something wrong in your
>> locale/lc_collate argument, dropping the collation and trying again.

> That would be really nice.

I think that's a useful function, but it's a different function from
the one first proposed, which was to tell you the properties of a
collation you already installed (which might not be ICU, even).
Perhaps we should have both.

regards, tom lane

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