| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| 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 10:32:38 |
| Message-ID: | 48D8C5C6.7010708@enterprisedb.com |
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> 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.
"locale -a" manages to do it somehow...
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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