Re: Create collation reporting the ICU locale display name

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Daniel Verite" <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>
Cc: "Michael Paquier" <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Create collation reporting the ICU locale display name
Date: 2019-09-13 15:12:24
Message-ID: 23430.1568387544@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Daniel Verite" <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org> writes:
> This output tend to reveal mistakes with tags, which is why I thought
> to expose it as a NOTICE. It addresses the case of a user
> who wouldn't suspect an error, so the "in-your-face" effect is
> intentional. With the function approach, the user must be
> proactive.

That argument presupposes (a) manual execution of the creation query,
and (b) that the user pays close attention to the NOTICE output.
Unfortunately, I think our past over-use of notices has trained
people to ignore them.

regards, tom lane

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