Re: help: collation support on Windows

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: help: collation support on Windows
Date: 2011-02-25 21:54:59
Message-ID: 4D682533.5020900@dunslane.net
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On 02/25/2011 02:32 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> According to the online documentation, the APIs are there:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/a7cwbx4t.aspx
>
> Now we'd need someone brave try to make it work. The starting point
> would be to define HAVE_LOCALE_T and then make it build. Microsoft has
> all the relevant functions and types with an underscore in front
> (_strcoll_l, etc.), so some extra #defining will probably be necessary.
>
> Also, initdb will need to be patched to get a list of OS locales to
> populate the pg_collation catalog with.
>
> Finally, a regression test customized for Windows, but I can help with
> that later.
>
>
>

What is the equivalent of "locale -a"?

cheers

andrew

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