Re: Patch for collation using ICU

Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes:
>> I'm confused. I thought the ICU patches is intended for using on
>> broken locale platforms?

> It will sort correctly in *one* locale, using ICU. You still cannot mix 
> different locales in the same database cluster, the collation locale is 
> still fixed at initdb time, unfortunately.

I thought the point of using ICU was to be able to dig out from under
that restriction?  It's a bit of a large pill to swallow if we will
still have to throw it away someday to become SQL spec compliant.
        regards, tom lane