Re: Locales and Encodings

Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:19 , Gregory Stark wrote:
>
>> It would make Postgres inconsistent and less integrated with the rest
>> of the
>> OS. How do you explain that Postgres doesn't follow the system's
>> configurations and the collations don't agree with the system
>> collations?
>
> How is this fundamentally different from PostgreSQL using a separate
> users/roles system than the OS?
Even more, eliminating dependencies on a OS's correct implementation of
locale stuff appears A Good Thing to me. I wonder if a compile time
option to use ICU in 8.4 should be considered, regarding all those
lengthy threads about encoding/locale/collation problems.

Regards,
Andreas