Very interesting discussion indeed. It seems that "Postgresql:The world's most advanced open source database" can not work properly on "Mac OS X: the world's most advanced operating system" and FreeBSD. Don't you think postgresql.org should remove from their download page the links to FreeBSD and Mac OS X binary packages? Martin Flahault Le 18 janv. 2010 à 08:10, Martijn van Oosterhout a écrit : > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 09:10:53PM +0000, Greg Stark wrote: >> Switching to ICU means trading our current inconsistency from platform >> to platform for a different inconsistency which would be better in >> some cases and worse in others. > > Or, you can have the cake and eat it too. That is, aim for the end goal > and let people choose what library they want to use for sorting (that > is, extend the meaning of the locale identifier). Patches for this > should be in the archives somewhere. As I recall the reason this was > rejected is that *BSD lack the capability of handling multiple > collation algorithms at all at the libc level (that is, if you don't > just tell people to use ICU in that case). > > Mac OS X doesn't have great POSIX locale support but at least they > implemented strcoll_l. > > Have a nice day, > -- > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ >> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while >> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
