On 10 August 2017 at 06:49, Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote: > There are actually very many customizations to collations that are > possible beyond what the "stock" ICU collations provide (whatever > "stock" means). Some of these are really cool, and I can imagine use > cases where they are very compelling that have nothing to do with > internationalization (such customizations are how we should eventually > implement case-insensitive collations, once the infrastructure for > doing that without breaking hashing is in place). > > I'd like to give a demo on what is already possible, but not currently > documented. I didn't see anyone else comment on this, including Peter > E (maybe I missed that?). We should improve the documentation in this > area, to get this into the hands of users. > > Say we're unhappy that numbers come first, which we see here: > > Ooh, this finally gives us a path toward case-insensitive default database collation via CLDR caseLevel.
http://userguide.icu-project.org/collation http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-collation.html#Algorithm_Case That *definitely* should be documented and exposed by initdb. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
