Re: WIP patch: Collation support

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:50:47PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Radek Strnad wrote:
> >- new collations can be defined with command CREATE COLLATION <collation
> >name> FOR <character set specification>  FROM <existing collation name>
> >[STRCOLFN <fn name>]
> >[ <pad characteristic> ] [ <case sensitive> ] [ LCCOLLATE <lc_collate> ]
> >[ LCCTYPE <lc_ctype> ]
>
> How do you plan to make a collation case sensitive or accent sensitive?
>  I have previously commented that this is not a realistic view on how
> collations work.  Since you are apparently planning to use the system
> locales, I don't see how you can make this work.

While it's true POSIX locales don't handle this, other collation
libraries do and we should support them if the user wants.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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