RE: database collation "C" and "C.LATIN1"

The sorting order behavior is same ,right? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> 
Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2023 4:30 PM
To: James Pang (chaolpan) <chaolpan@cisco.com>; pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: database collation "C" and "C.LATIN1"

On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 08:22 +0000, James Pang (chaolpan) wrote:
> We create one database with collate= “C.LATIN1”, any difference between “C” and “C.LATIN1” ?
> database encoding is “LATIN1”.
>  
>   oid  |        collname        | collencoding |   collcollate    |    
> collctype     | collversion
> -------+------------------------+--------------+------------------+------------------+-------------
>    950 | C                      |           -1 | C                | C                |
>  12328 | C.latin1               |            8 | C.latin1         | C.latin1         |

The difference is a technicality: "C" is encoding agnostic (-1) and can be used with any encoding, while "C.latin1" can
onlybe used with encoding LATIN1 (8).
 
The behavior is the same.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe