On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 11:15 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I wonder, however, how useful this would be in practice. In most > interesting cases, you need to know what the provider is to be able > to > spell out the locale name appropriately. The cases where some > overlap > exists, like the common "ll_CC", are already preloaded, so won't > actually need to be specified explicitly in many cases.
Good point. > Also, I think the default should only flow one way, top-down: The > default provider of CREATE COLLATION is datlocprovider. There > shouldn't > be a second, botton-up way, based on the other specified CREATE > COLLATION parameters. That's just too much logical zig-zag, IMO. Also a good point. I am withdrawing this patch from the CF, and we can reconsider the idea later perhaps in some other form. Regards, Jeff Davis