Re: WIP patch: Collation support

Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> pg_collation catalog is also important for pg_dump, because system 
> collation names are not compatible over OS and pg_dump output should be 
> portable. pg_collation adds abstract layer which solve this problem.

That's a valid point. We'll still need a way to map OS locale to 
whatever internal names we invent for them, though, so I'm not sure if 
the pg_collation catalog helps much, but just moves the problem 
elsewhere. The pg_dump output of the CREATE COLLATION statements still 
wouldn't be portable from one OS to another.

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