On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 01:18:35PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > I think that we should remove language tailored collation until it is > available natively in C. > > I doubt that it is used, and we have been very prudent in the manual to > use language that allow us to remove any working language tailored > collation without giving any error message, and also using 'may' for > DOCUMENTLANGUAGE_COLLATION. > > I would propose to remove COLLATION_LANGUAGE and > DOCUMENTLANGUAGE_COLLATION documentation, keep the customization > variables, and also remove the call from C to Perl. I propose to keep as is > the code in Perl and therefore keep the working > COLLATION_LANGUAGE/DOCUMENTLANGUAGE_COLLATION implementation, but it > would be "hidden". > > Opinions?
I'm happy with this. As you say, the manual doesn't guarantee that these variables will work. I don't remember any demand or interest from users in customisation of index collation order.
