Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:21:44 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>,
	Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Juan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Santamar=EDa?= Flecha
 <juanjo.santamaria@gmail.com>,
	Arthur Zakirov <zaartur@gmail.com>,
	Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() to accept localized names
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On 2020-Jan-28, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On 2020-01-28 04:05, Mark Dilger wrote:
> > German uses both Sonnabend and Samstag for Saturday, so don’t you have to compare to a list of values anyway?
> 
> Yeah, good point.  If it doesn't accept both "Sonnabend" and "Samstag", then
> it's not really usable.

The string "Sonnabend" never appears in the glibc sources, so that will
certainly not work.  I vote not to care about that, but of course my
language is not one that has alternate weekday/month names.  I guess if
we're intent on recognizing alternate names, we'll have to build our own
list of them :-(

I don't have the ICU sources here to check the status there.

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