On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 03:03:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > The idea of having CREATE COLLATION automatically create a comment > is sort of interesting, although it seems pretty orthogonal to > normal command behavior. I wonder whether the seeming need for > this indicates that we should add a descriptive field to pg_collation > proper, and not usurp the user-oriented comment feature for that. > > The difficulty with localization is that whatever we put into > template1 has got to be ASCII-only, so that the template DB > can be copied to other encodings. I suppose we could consider > having CREATE COLLATION act differently during initdb than > later, but that seems ugly too.
Or could it make sense to provide a system function which returns a collation description for at least an ICU-provided one? We could make use of that in psql for example. -- Michael
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