| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, marcin mank <marcin(dot)mank(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Per-column collation |
| Date: | 2010-11-16 22:38:48 |
| Message-ID: | 7835.1289947128@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:32:01PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On tis, 2010-11-16 at 21:05 +0100, marcin mank wrote:
>>> It would be nice if we could have some mapping of locale names bult
>>> in, so one doesn`t have to write alternative sql depending on DB
>>> server OS:
>> Sure that would be nice, but how do you hope to do that?
> Given that each operating system comes with a different set of
> collations, it seems unlikely you could even find two collations on
> different OSes that even correspond.
Yeah, the *real* portability problem here is that the locale behavior is
likely to be different, not just the name. I don't think we'd be doing
people many favors by masking behavioral differences between a forced
common name.
regards, tom lane
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