Re: Open issues for collations

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On mn, 2011-03-28 at 20:02 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> One thing I noticed but didn't push to committing is that the test
>> case has a largely-unnecessary assumption about how the local system's
>> locale names spell "utf8". We could eliminate that by having it use
>> the trimmed locale names created by initdb.

> I see you went for the latter option. That works pretty well already.
> I've also been playing around with separating out the "Turkish" tests
> into a separate file. That would then probably get the remaining
> "latin1" file passing, if we also dropped the encoding mention from this
> error message:

> ERROR: collation "foo" for encoding "UTF8" does not exist

> I had thought hard about this in the past and didn't want to do it, but
> since we are now making every effort to effectively hide collations with
> the wrong encoding, this would possibly be acceptable.

Not sure. If we had the test refactored to the point where that was the
only diff you got with a different server encoding, maybe it'd be worth
changing; but right now we're still a long way from there. I was seeing
this change as mainly targeted towards making the test useful on more
platforms, and since that encoding name is ours and not
platform-specific, it doesn't create any portability issues to show it.

regards, tom lane