> Face it, everything has locale support these day. PostgreSQL is one of
> the few packages that even has it as an option to turn it off. Users of
> binary packages of PostgreSQL are all invariably faced with locale
> features. So it's not like sudden unasked-for locale support is going to
> be a major shock.
Certainly everyone would agree that "locale support" is desirable.
Tatsuo has been one of the earliest and most vocal participants in
design speculations on how to support the SQL9x concept of character
sets and collations, which for purposes of long range planning seem to
be synonymous with "locale" afaict.
The question is whether and how to continue to extend the use of
OS-supplied features to accomplish this support, with the severe
restrictions (from an SQL9x pov) which come with the OS implementation.
- Thomas