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Re: Collations and Replication; Next Steps

Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Matthew Kelly <mkelly@tripadvisor.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Matthew Spilich <mspilich@tripadvisor.com>
Date: 2014-09-17T18:07:39Z
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> We could at least use the GNU facility for versioning collations where
>> available, LC_IDENTIFICATION [1].
>
> It looks like the revisions or dates reported by LC_IDENTIFICATION
> aren't ever updated for most locales.


That's not surprising. There is zero controversy about how to
correctly sort English text, for example. For other languages, that
might be much less true.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan