| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Radek Strnad <radek(dot)strnad(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: WIP patch: Collation support |
| Date: | 2008-09-23 10:26:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20080923102652.GB6986@svana.org |
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:22:35AM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> BTW, the original patch didn't have any provision for creating rows in
> pg_collation reflecting the locales available in the OS, but I think
> we'd need that. Otherwise the DBA would need to manually run CREATE
> COLLATION for every collation they want users to be able to use.
> Assuming we do that, the situation that we can't find a row with given
> LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE should not arise in practice.
You're assuming collations are denumerable. They're not. There is no way
to find the list of available collations/locales. You may be able to
guess a few but certainly not all of them.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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