From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Specifying column level collations
Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 22:12:35 +0200
Message-ID: <iq493a$5ds$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8892.1304786932@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <iq39rc$8sl$1@dough.gmane.org>
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Tom Lane wrote on 07.05.2011 18:48:
> Thomas Kellerer<spam_eater@gmx.net> writes:
>> My database is initialized as follows:
>
>> postgres=# select version();
>> version
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> PostgreSQL 9.1beta1, compiled by Visual C++ build 1500, 32-bit
>> (1 row)
>
> I gather this is on Windows.
>
> Windows has its own notion of locale names, which look like this:
>
>> lc_collate | German_Germany.1252
>
> rather than the "de_DE" type of convention that's used by every other
> platform on the planet. There is not yet support in initdb for
> pre-populating pg_collation with Windows-style entries, so you will
> have to create your own entries. Presumably this would work for you,
> for instance:
>
> CREATE COLLATION german (locale='German_Germany.1252');
>
Ah! That did it. Thanks a lot.
Regards
Thomas
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