Re: Built-in CTYPE provider

On Wed, 2023-12-20 at 13:49 +0100, Daniel Verite wrote:
> If the Postgres default was bytewise sorting+locale-agnostic
> ctype functions directly derived from Unicode data files,
> as opposed to libc/$LANG at initdb time, the main
> annoyance would be that "ORDER BY textcol" would no
> longer be the human-favored sort.
> For the presentation layer, we would have to write for instance
>  ORDER BY textcol COLLATE "unicode" for the root collation
> or a specific region-country if needed.
> But all the rest seems better, especially cross-OS compatibity,
> truly immutable and faster indexes for fields that
> don't require linguistic ordering, alignment between Unicode
> updates and Postgres updates.

Thank you, that summarizes exactly the compromise that I'm trying to
reach.

Regards,
Jeff Davis