| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: Locales and Encodings |
| Date: | 2007-10-12 16:02:08 |
| Message-ID: | 470F9A80.8050200@pse-consulting.de |
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Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:19 , Gregory Stark wrote:
>
>> It would make Postgres inconsistent and less integrated with the rest
>> of the
>> OS. How do you explain that Postgres doesn't follow the system's
>> configurations and the collations don't agree with the system
>> collations?
>
> How is this fundamentally different from PostgreSQL using a separate
> users/roles system than the OS?
Even more, eliminating dependencies on a OS's correct implementation of
locale stuff appears A Good Thing to me. I wonder if a compile time
option to use ICU in 8.4 should be considered, regarding all those
lengthy threads about encoding/locale/collation problems.
Regards,
Andreas
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