Re: Collation versions on Windows (help wanted, apply within)

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Collation versions on Windows (help wanted, apply within)
Date: 2019-11-26 20:39:25
Message-ID: CA+hUKGJHoZHYCA4d4aWpUYYZ0D+H598UYc_OqVwbENhaeURQ0A@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 12:44 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> The reason for returning an empty string for "C" and "POSIX" is the
> following comment for get_collation_actual_version():
>
> * A particular provider must always either return a non-NULL string or return
> * NULL (if it doesn't support versions). It must not return NULL for some
> * collcollate and not NULL for others.
>
> I'm not sure why, or if that really makes sense.

Peter E, do you have any thoughts on this question?

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