Re: Crash report for some ICU-52 (debian8) COLLATE and work_mem values

On 8/9/17 17:29, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
>>> It would help if CREATE COLLATION left new
>>> ICU collations with the same useful "Description" as initdb created
>>> collations will have; maybe that should be added.

I had been thinking about that, too, while I was writing it, but there
is the semantic objection:

>> I do not think it is CREATE COLLATION's job to provide a comment;
>> no other CREATE command does so.

How about a special option in the CREATE COLLATION to create the comment
automatically on demand? Sample patch attached.

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