Re: is this a bug or I am blind?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mage <mage(at)mage(dot)hu>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: is this a bug or I am blind?
Date: 2005-12-23 00:40:17
Message-ID: 200512230040.jBN0eHu10260@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom has applied a patch to fix this and backpatched it to all relivant
branches. He might be preparing a summary email about this.

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Mage wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:01:15PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I think the real solution is to implement COLLATE support.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Maybe so, but we still need to figure out what we're doing for the back
> >>branches, and that won't be it ...
> >>
> >>
> >
> >To be honest, there are really only a handful of locales that suffer
> >from this issue, so perhaps we should document it and move on.
> >
> I don't agree. Usually I read the whole documentation of the software I
> use, but you cannot presume that every user even with good sql skills
> will check the documentation for a thing he wouldn't imagine.
>
> With knowing the background it is understandable locale problem, but in
> the user's point of view it's a weird and serious bug which shouldn't be
> there. Using hu_HU with latin2 is a normal marrying.
>
> Some users (including me) don't always read the "known issues" chapter,
> even for a good quality software.
>
> Mage
>
>
>
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