Re: Locale implementation questions (was: [HACKERS] Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch)

2005-09-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 05:44:50PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: [...] Nor is it simpler for sysadmins to have to maintain an entirely separate set of locales independently from the system locales. Indeed, I was already coming up with mechanisms to determine what locales the system uses and try to

Locale implementation questions (was: [HACKERS] Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch)

2005-09-03 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:42:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: The objection is fundamentally that a platform-specific implementation cannot be our long-term goal, and so expending effort on creating one seems like a diversion. If there were a plan put forward showing how this is just a useful

Re: Locale implementation questions (was: [HACKERS] Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch)

2005-09-03 Thread Greg Stark
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: 2. Locale data needs to be combined with a charset and compiled to work with the library. PostgreSQL supports at least 15 charsets but we don't want to ship compiled versions of all of these (Debian learnt that the hard way). So, how do we