| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo(dot)santamaria(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Arthur Zakirov <zaartur(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() to accept localized names |
| Date: | 2020-01-28 08:02:36 |
| Message-ID: | b3b3ca02-1709-ea31-1dfb-15e1bf72ad0b@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 2020-01-28 03:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> The other question your example raises is whether we should be trying
> to de-accent before comparison, ie was it right for 'Ιανουάριος' to
> be treated differently from 'Ιανουαριος'. I don't know enough Greek
> to say, but it kind of feels like that should be outside to_date's
> purview.
To clarify, nothing in my examples was meant to imply that de-accenting
might be necessary. AFAICT, the accented forms are the only
linguistically acceptable forms and all the locale libraries accept them
correctly in their accented forms.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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