Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2821336FA7 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:04:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16715-03 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:04:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95613133655C for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:04:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p2KH4dNM028744; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:04:40 -0400 (EDT) To: Heikki Linnakangas cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Ordering of sections in chapter 22 (Localization) In-reply-to: <4D85AEC4.1010703@enterprisedb.com> References: <16750.1300604795@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4D85AEC4.1010703@enterprisedb.com> Comments: In-reply-to Heikki Linnakangas message dated "Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:37:40 +0200" Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:04:39 -0400 Message-ID: <28743.1300640679@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201103/110 X-Sequence-Number: 6543 Heikki Linnakangas writes: > On 20.03.2011 09:06, Tom Lane wrote: >> I'm wondering why chapter 22 discusses locales (and now collations) >> before encodings. > To me, it feels natural to discuss locales and collations first. OK, I left that alone. I can't escape the feeling that section 22.2 could do with a complete rewrite, though --- it seems awkward and full of unnecessary jargon. In particular I think we could do without the phraseology about "collation derivations". But I've been staring at it for too long now to have a good idea what to do instead. regards, tom lane