Michael Glaesemann wrote: > > On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:19 , Gregory Stark wrote: > >> It would make Postgres inconsistent and less integrated with the rest >> of the >> OS. How do you explain that Postgres doesn't follow the system's >> configurations and the collations don't agree with the system >> collations? > > How is this fundamentally different from PostgreSQL using a separate > users/roles system than the OS? Even more, eliminating dependencies on a OS's correct implementation of locale stuff appears A Good Thing to me. I wonder if a compile time option to use ICU in 8.4 should be considered, regarding all those lengthy threads about encoding/locale/collation problems.
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