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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Verite <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Order changes in PG16 since ICU introduction
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 15:37:17 -0400
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On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 3:25 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joe Conway <[email protected]> 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.

Or perhaps "builtin" or "postgresql".

I'm just thinking that "internal" as a type name kind of means "you
shouldn't be touching this from SQL" and we don't want to give people
the idea that the "C" locale isn't something you should use.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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