Re: Proof of concept COLLATE support with patch

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Date: 2005-09-04T17:06:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> This is just a proof of concept patch. I didn't send it to -patches
> because as Tom pointed out, there's no hope of it getting in due to
> platform dependant behaviour.

I think it would be best if we defined an internal API for plugging in 
various kinds of locale support.  Then you can hook in this 
"newlocale", the Windows variant, ICU, or plain-old POSIX locale 
support for backward compatibility.  You already identified most of the 
API functions.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/