| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au, alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl, pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Patch for collation using ICU |
| Date: | 2005-05-08 16:46:47 |
| Message-ID: | 12273.1115570807@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net> writes:
>> I'm confused. I thought the ICU patches is intended for using on
>> broken locale platforms?
> It will sort correctly in *one* locale, using ICU. You still cannot mix
> different locales in the same database cluster, the collation locale is
> still fixed at initdb time, unfortunately.
I thought the point of using ICU was to be able to dig out from under
that restriction? It's a bit of a large pill to swallow if we will
still have to throw it away someday to become SQL spec compliant.
regards, tom lane
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