From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>,
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        Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>,
        pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Order changes in PG16 since ICU introduction
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Comments: In-reply-to Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
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Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> On 6/6/23 15:18, Jeff Davis wrote:
>> The locale "C" is a special case, documented as a non-locale. So, if
>> LOCALE/--locale apply to ICU, then either ICU needs to handle locale
>> "C" in the expected way (v8 patch series); or when we see locale "C" we
>> need to somehow change the provider into something that can handle it
>> (v6 patch series changes it to the "none" provider).

> +1 to the latter approach

Also +1, except that I find "none" a rather confusing choice of name.
There *is* a provider, it's just PG itself not either libc or ICU.
I thought Joe's suggestion of "internal" made more sense.

			regards, tom lane