Re: Change initdb default to the builtin collation provider

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Change initdb default to the builtin collation provider
Date: 2026-03-11 17:43:54
Message-ID: 3c015e118176ecd4b060e8343bf3b75f459ffcf5.camel@j-davis.com
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On Wed, 2026-03-11 at 17:28 +0100, Daniel Verite wrote:
> Also, it's not obvious how initdb could choose an UTF-8 locale
> regardless of the environment.

Right.

> Personally I think that ignoring the environment's LC_* for the
> collations would be fine if we went for builtin/C.UTF-8 by default,
> as
> $subject suggests.  But the level of enthusiasm for that from the
> community seems much lower than it would need to be for that kind of
> change to be acceptable.

At this point in the release cycle, it seems too late for $subject to
happen in 19. But I do find this discussion useful, so I hope we can
continue while it has some attention.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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