Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@svana.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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers