Re: Collation versioning

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 4:38 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 1:51 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> FWIW, the attached does fix the issue for me.  It basically just calls
>>> the function that converts the windows-type "English_New Zealand.1252"
>>> locale name string into, e.g. "en_NZ".

> We want the same algorithm that Windows uses internally to resolve the
> old style name to a collation; in other words we probably want
> something more like the code path that they took away in VS2015 :-(.

Yeah.  In the short run, though, it'd be nice to un-break the buildfarm.
Maybe we could push David's code or something similar, and then
contemplate better ways at leisure?

            regards, tom lane