Re: [GENERAL] Not able to create collation on Windows

Hi Tom,

Yes, I was able to create collation using "C" instead of "POSIX" on windows,

CREATE COLLATION public.test from pg_catalog."C";

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Regards,
Murtuza Zabuawala

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 8/1/17 10:53, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I think this is actually a bug, because the collations code clearly
> >> means to allow clones of the C/POSIX locales --- see eg lc_collate_is_c,
>
> > You seem to say that we should support a "POSIX" locale even on systems
> > where the C library does not support that. I'm not convinced about that.
>
> Uh, we already do. Note all the regression tests that unconditionally
> assume that the POSIX collation works. Also, I am confused by your
> apparent belief that there might somewhere be a version of libc that
> fails to provide C-locale-compliant behavior. Surely nobody would
> tolerate a version of strcmp() that fails to act per C spec.
>
> regards, tom lane
>