Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL 10 (latest beta) and older ICU

On 7/25/17 15:20, Victor Wagner wrote:
> It turns out, that PostgreSQL enumerates collations for all ICU locales
> and passes it into uloc_toLanguageTag function with strict argument of
> this function set to TRUE. But for some locales
> (es*@collation=tradtiional, si*@collation=dictionary) only call with
> strict=FALSE succeeds in ICU 4.2. In newer versions of ICU all locales
> can be resolved with strict=TRUE.

We are only calling uloc_toLanguageTag() with keyword/value combinations
that ICU itself previously told us were supported.  So just ignoring
errors doesn't seem proper in this case.

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