Re: Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() to accept localized names

On 2020-Jan-24, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote:

> There is an open patch that will make the normalization functionality user
> visible [1]. So, if a user can call to_date(normalize('01 ŞUB 2010'), 'DD
> TMMON YYYY') I would vote to drop the normalization logic inside this patch
> altogether.

I was reading the SQL standard on this point, and it says this (4.2.8
Universal character sets):

  An SQL-implementation may assume that all UCS strings are normalized
  in one of [Unicode normalization forms].

which seems to agree with what you're saying.

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