Re: CREATE COLLATION without LOCALE throws error in v15

On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 14:14 -0500, Kyle Spearrin wrote:
> However, in Postgres 15 we see the following error:
>
> ERROR:  parameter "locale" must be specified

I agree that this is some kind of bug. The docs seem pretty clear[1]:

  "locale

    This is a shortcut for setting LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE
    at once. If you specify this, you cannot specify either
    of those parameters."

The error appears to come from commit f2553d4306 ("Add option to use
ICU as global locale provider"). My guess is that it was seen as
clearer to write LOCALE, and that the error wasn't expected to cause
anyone a problem. But, given that it's causing a problem for ORMs, we
should fix it.

Simple patch attached. I intend to commit and backpatch to 15 in the
next day or so.

Looking at the docs for CREATE COLLATION[1] and CREATE DATABASE[2], we
could probably do more to make this area consistent. But that's for
another discussion.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-createcollation.html
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-createdatabase.html


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Jeff Davis
PostgreSQL Contributor Team - AWS