From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "A(dot)M(dot)" <agentm(at)themactionfaction(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Mac ordering with locales |
Date: | 2008-02-21 18:49:52 |
Message-ID: | 13833.1203619792@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"A.M." <agentm(at)themactionfaction(dot)com> writes:
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It seems to be a deficiency in Apple's locale support. The second
>> message is interesting since it indicates that "smart" sorting is
>> available somewhere/somehow under OS X, but nobody here knows how
>> to get at it :-(
> The function is "CFStringCompareWithOptionsAndLocale()".
> It is obviously not a portable function (beyond the Core Foundation
> sources being open and available), so there may not be any interest
> in having this in PostgreSQL.
Hmm. In principle we could replace strcoll() with a wrapper around
this, using a src/port/ module. The real problem with this is that it's
new in Leopard, and thus not even adequately portable within the OSX
world.
> Also, which MacOS X version is under discussion here? Could the
> strcoll() bug have been fixed in Leopard?
I just checked sort(1) on 10.5.2, and it seems to still behave the same
as before, so nope they didn't change it.
regards, tom lane
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