Re: [WIP] patch - Collation at database level

Andrew, Tom,

> Agreed. Are we even sure that we want per-database collations as a
> half-way house? Unless we can be sure that we want all the required
> catalog changes for the full requirement, it seems to me a rather messy
> way of getting to where we want to go.

Given that we don't have a delivery date for table or column level collations, 
we don't want to turn down database-level collations.    If nothing else, 
Radek's work will expose what areas of our code are collation-dependant and 
hopefully make the work of more granular collations easier.  And if it takes 
us 3 years to get more granular collations, at least people can use 
database-level ones in the meantime so that they don't need to have separate 
PostgreSQL binaries for every language they want to support fully.

Also ... this is a Summer of Code Project, which we accepted, which at least 
in Google and the student's eyes means we're not going to discard the entire 
premise of the patch.  I'm not exaggerating when I say doing something like 
that could get PostgreSQL permanently banned from Google SoC.  

Tom, I think you need to be on the SoC committee in the future, just to raise 
objections.  Some 15+ PostgreSQL contributors on the SoC committee approved 
Radek's project.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco