On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 11:15 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I wonder, however, how useful this would be in practice. In most
> interesting cases, you need to know what the provider is to be able
> to
> spell out the locale name appropriately. The cases where some
> overlap
> exists, like the common "ll_CC", are already preloaded, so won't
> actually need to be specified explicitly in many cases.
Good point.
> Also, I think the default should only flow one way, top-down: The
> default provider of CREATE COLLATION is datlocprovider. There
> shouldn't
> be a second, botton-up way, based on the other specified CREATE
> COLLATION parameters. That's just too much logical zig-zag, IMO.
Also a good point. I am withdrawing this patch from the CF, and we can
reconsider the idea later perhaps in some other form.
Regards,
Jeff Davis