Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 9:57 AM Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org> wrote:
>> An advantage of this approach is that you may execute the
>> function before creating the collation, instead of creating the
>> collation, realizing there was something wrong in your
>> locale/lc_collate argument, dropping the collation and trying again.
> That would be really nice.
I think that's a useful function, but it's a different function from
the one first proposed, which was to tell you the properties of a
collation you already installed (which might not be ICU, even).
Perhaps we should have both.
regards, tom lane