On 27 Nov 2014 09:09, "Jakob Egger" <ja...@eggerapps.at> wrote: > > ICU offers a lot more collations than the OS. For example, besides "de_CH" it also offers "de_CH@collation=phonebook". Adding support for these is a bit more involved. > > * initdb would need to be extended to also look for collations offered by ICU and add them to the pg_collation catalog.
Hm. Actually the pg_collation catalog might give a handy way out for the issue of being inconsistent with the system collation. We could support both sets of collations and let the user select an ICU collation or system collation at runtime.