Tom Lane wrote: > Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 2:47 AM > To: Palle Girgensohn > Cc: Tatsuo Ishii; John Hansen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > pgman@candle.pha.pa.us; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Patch for collation using ICU > > Palle Girgensohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm confused. I thought the ICU patches is intended for using on > >> broken locale platforms? > > > It will sort correctly in *one* locale, using ICU. You still cannot > > mix different locales in the same database cluster, the collation > > locale is still fixed at initdb time, unfortunately. > > I thought the point of using ICU was to be able to dig out > from under that restriction? It's a bit of a large pill to > swallow if we will still have to throw it away someday to > become SQL spec compliant.
That is not a limitation of ICU but of postgresql. I don't know what the specs say, but imagine something like: SELECT foo FROM bar ORDER BY foo WITH LOCALE 'en_US', foobar WITH LOCALE 'jp_JP'; Which would be less difficult to implement using ICU. > > regards, tom lane > > ... John ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
