Re: Add CREATE DATABASE LOCALE option

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add CREATE DATABASE LOCALE option
Date: 2019-07-22 18:36:39
Message-ID: d58f96ca-7f7a-7110-c560-1347a85407be@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-07-13 19:20, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> The second error message about conflicting option could more explicit than
> a terse "conflicting or redundant options"? The user may expect later
> options to superseedes earlier options, for instance.

done

> About the pg_dump code, I'm wondering whether it is worth generating
> LOCALE as it breaks backward compatibility (eg dumping a new db to load it
> into a older version).

We don't really care about backward compatibility here. Moving forward,
with ICU and such, we don't want to have to drag around old syntax forever.

> If it is to be generated, I'd do merge the two conditions instead of
> nesting.
>
> if (strlen(collate) > 0 && strcmp(collate, ctype) == 0)
> // generate LOCALE

done

How about this patch?

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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