On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 10:56 AM Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 9:11 PM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 08:44:15AM +0100, Juan José SantamarÃa Flecha wrote: > > > We could create a static table with the conversion based on what was > > > discussed for commit a169155, please find attached a spreadsheet with the > > > comparison. This would require maintenance as new LCIDs are released [1].
> > I am honestly not a fan of something like that as it has good chances > > to rot. > No opinion on that, other than that we'd surely want a machine > readable version. As for *when* we use that information, I'm > wondering if it would make sense to convert datcollate to a language > tag in initdb, and also change pg_upgrade's equivalent_locale() > function to consider "English_United States.*" and "en-US" to be > equivalent when upgrading to 14 (which would then be the only point > you'd ever have to have faith that we can convert the old style names > to the new names correctly). I'm unlikely to work on this myself as I > have other operating systems to fix, but I'll certainly be happy if > somehow we can get versioning for default on Windows in PG14 and not > have to come up with weasel words in the manual. FYI I have added this as an open item for PostgreSQL 14. My default action will be to document this limitation, if we can't come up with something better in time.
