On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 12:04:42AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > Look at the POSIX interface, look at ICU. They both provide collate > > order *and* date/time formats *and* number formatting. Pretending > > they're seperate is silly. > > I'm not pretending. They *are* separate. That's why you can set them > separately.
They're provided by the same library and set using the same interface. Currently LC_COLLATE is fixed for the database, but LC_TIME and LC_NUMERIC can vary between queries. For COLLATE support you need to be able to specify a different LC_COLLATE for different parts of the query, this provides that. The POSIX interface isn't flexible enough for that. To support COLLATE PostgreSQL's locale support needs to be upgraded and made more flexible. This is not a surprise. Anything that doesn't use the new interface isn't affected. I'm a little confused where the problem is. If you're worried about functions using the COLLATE tag for something else, well then we won't do that. Each function/operator decides for itself whether it's meaningful for them or not... -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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