Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 9:57 AM Daniel Verite <dan...@manitou-mail.org> wrote: >> An advantage of this approach is that you may execute the >> function before creating the collation, instead of creating the >> collation, realizing there was something wrong in your >> locale/lc_collate argument, dropping the collation and trying again.
> That would be really nice. I think that's a useful function, but it's a different function from the one first proposed, which was to tell you the properties of a collation you already installed (which might not be ICU, even). Perhaps we should have both. regards, tom lane