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From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
To: Daniel Verite <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeremy Schneider <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Built-in CTYPE provider
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:13:12 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Wed, 2023-12-20 at 13:49 +0100, Daniel Verite wrote:
> If the Postgres default was bytewise sorting+locale-agnostic
> ctype functions directly derived from Unicode data files,
> as opposed to libc/$LANG at initdb time, the main
> annoyance would be that "ORDER BY textcol" would no
> longer be the human-favored sort.
> For the presentation layer, we would have to write for instance
>  ORDER BY textcol COLLATE "unicode" for the root collation
> or a specific region-country if needed.
> But all the rest seems better, especially cross-OS compatibity,
> truly immutable and faster indexes for fields that
> don't require linguistic ordering, alignment between Unicode
> updates and Postgres updates.

Thank you, that summarizes exactly the compromise that I'm trying to
reach.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis

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