Re: Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE and work_mem values

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 8/9/17 17:29, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
>>>> It would help if CREATE COLLATION left new
>>>> ICU collations with the same useful "Description" as initdb created
>>>> collations will have; maybe that should be added.
>
> I had been thinking about that, too, while I was writing it, but there
> is the semantic objection:
>
>>> I do not think it is CREATE COLLATION's job to provide a comment;
>>> no other CREATE command does so.

I must admit that I missed that the description was cataloged as a
comment. Is it out of the question to add another column to
pg_collation, that just always has the ICU-provided description? These
seem like separate concerns to me.

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Peter Geoghegan