Re: WIP patch: Collation support

Tom Lane wrote:
> What might be sensible to ask is whether it is ever actually reasonable
> for LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to have different settings.  If we were
> willing to enforce that they be the same, we could reduce this to just
> the standard syntax COLLATE=something and be done with it.  Not being
> much of a user of anything except C locale, I might be the wrong person
> to opine on this; but it seems to me that having them different is far
> more likely to be a mistake than desirable.

Agreed, it doesn't make much sense. I find it hard to imagine anyone 
doing that on purpose, but we have supported it at initdb time for ages.

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