On 8/19/17 19:15, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
>> I think you're contending that, as formulated, this is not a valid v10 open
>> item. Are you?
>
> As the person that came up with this formulation, I'd like to give a
> quick summary of my current understanding of the item's status:
>
> * We're in agreement that we ought to have initdb create initial
> collations based on ICU locales, not based on distinct ICU
> collations [1].
>
> * We're in agreement that variant keywords should not be
> created for each base locale/collation [2].
>
> Once these two changes are made, I think that everything will be in good
> shape as far as pg_collation name stability goes. It shouldn't take
> Peter E. long to write the patch. I'm happy to write the patch on his
> behalf if that saves time.
>
> We're also going to work on the documentation, to make keyword variants
> like -emoji and -traditional at least somewhat discoverable, and to
> explain the capabilities of custom ICU collations more generally.
Here are my patches to address this.
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