| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, 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: | 2008-09-22 14:13:47 |
| Message-ID: | 48D7A81B.7050602@enterprisedb.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> What might be sensible to ask is whether it is ever actually reasonable
> for LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to have different settings. If we were
> willing to enforce that they be the same, we could reduce this to just
> the standard syntax COLLATE=something and be done with it. Not being
> much of a user of anything except C locale, I might be the wrong person
> to opine on this; but it seems to me that having them different is far
> more likely to be a mistake than desirable.
Agreed, it doesn't make much sense. I find it hard to imagine anyone
doing that on purpose, but we have supported it at initdb time for ages.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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