Re: Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch

From: Petr Jelinek <pjmodos(at)seznam(dot)cz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch
Date: 2005-09-04 23:52:45
Message-ID: 431B88CD.8050904@seznam.cz
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> The hole in that argument is the assumption that there *is* a freely
> available library that can be used (where freely == BSD license).
> We wouldn't be having this discussion if we knew of one.

I see this discussion as another reason to use ICU, I mean complete
rewrite of locale handling to use ICU on all platforms. I know it's big
project but it's doable for 8.2 and it would virtually solve all locale
problems and could be base for new unicode/locale features. I am not
sure if this is the way postgres wants to go tho (having dependency on
such a big and uncommon library).

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Regards
Petr Jelinek (PJMODOS)

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