Re: How can I find a specific collation in pg_collation when using ICU?

From: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
To: 'Peter Eisentraut' <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, 'Peter Geoghegan' <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: "maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com" <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How can I find a specific collation in pg_collation when using ICU?
Date: 2017-08-10 01:19:00
Message-ID: 0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F780F1A@G01JPEXMBYT05
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From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Peter Eisentraut
> There are no case-insensitive collations in PostgreSQL (yet).

That's sad news, as I expected ICU to bring its various collation features to PostgreSQL. I hope it will be easy to add them.

From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Peter Geoghegan
> This is not an answer to the question you asked, but it may interest you
> to know that ICU uses JIS X 4061 for Japanese, unlike Glibc. This will give
> more useful results when sorting Japanese.
>
> The best explanation of the difference that I can understand is here, under
> "Why do CJK strings sort incorrectly in Unicode?":
>
> https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/faqs-cjk.html

Thanks a lot. MysQL seems to have many collations, doesn't it?

Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa

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