On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 4:53 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > There are two cases where these two columns are not the same: > > > hindi english \ > > russian english \ > > > The second one is old; the first one I added using the second one as > > example. But I wonder what the rationale for this is. Maybe for hindi > > one could make some kind of cultural argument, but for russian this > > seems entirely arbitrary. > > Perhaps it is, but we have actual Russians who think it's a good idea. > I recall questioning that point some years ago, and Oleg replied that > they'd done that intentionally because (a) technical Russian uses a lot > of English words, and (b) it's easy to tell which is which thanks to > the disjoint letter sets. > > Yes, you are right.
> Whether the same is true for Hindi, I have no idea. > > > Moreover, AFAIK, the following other languages do not use Latin-based > > alphabets: > > > arabic arabic \ > > greek greek \ > > nepali nepali \ > > tamil tamil \ > > Hmm. I think all of those entries are ones that got added by me while > absorbing post-2007 Snowball updates, and I confess that I did not think > about this point. Maybe these should be changed. > > regards, tom lane > > > -- Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com The Russian Postgres Company
