"A.M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It seems to be a deficiency in Apple's locale support.  The second
>> message is interesting since it indicates that "smart" sorting is
>> available somewhere/somehow under OS X, but nobody here knows how
>> to get at it :-(

> The function is "CFStringCompareWithOptionsAndLocale()".

> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Reference/CFStringRef/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/CFStringCompareWithOptionsAndLocale

> It is obviously not a portable function (beyond the Core Foundation  
> sources being open and available), so there may not be any interest  
> in having this in PostgreSQL.

Hmm.  In principle we could replace strcoll() with a wrapper around
this, using a src/port/ module. The real problem with this is that it's
new in Leopard, and thus not even adequately portable within the OSX
world.

> Also, which MacOS X version is under discussion here? Could the  
> strcoll() bug have been fixed in Leopard?

I just checked sort(1) on 10.5.2, and it seems to still behave the same
as before, so nope they didn't change it.

                        regards, tom lane

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