On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM Daniel Verite <dan...@manitou-mail.org> wrote: > Dominique Devienne wrote: > > On Linux, no error unlike on Windows (still inconsistent there IMHO), > > but the result is slightly different for datcollate and datctype (C vs > > en_US), > > while the same for datlocprovider and datlocale, what I looked at. > > > > Thus I kinda persist that there *is* a portability issue here. > > "datcollate" and "datctype" refer to operating system locale names. > > locale 'C.UTF-8' or lc_collate 'C.UTF-8' lc_ctype 'C.UTF-8' > cannot work on Windows because Windows does not have a locale > named C.UTF-8, whereas a Linux system does (well at least recent > Linuxes. Some old Linuxes don't).
But isn't the point of the new-in-v17 builtin provider is to be system independent??? > What you are seeing is the effect of OS locales not being portable > across systems. That's confusing but not a Postgres bug. Thus builtin SHOULD be portable IMHO. --DD
