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Tom Lane authored
Most of our collations code has special handling for the locale names "C" and "POSIX", allowing those collations to be used whether or not the system libraries think those locale names are valid, or indeed whether said libraries even have any locale support. But we missed handling things that way in CREATE COLLATION. This meant you couldn't clone the C/POSIX collations, nor explicitly define a new collation using those locale names, unless the libraries allow it. That's pretty pointless, as well as being a violation of pg_newlocale_from_collation's API specification. The practical effect of this change is quite limited: it allows creating such collations even on platforms that don't HAVE_LOCALE_T, and it allows making "POSIX" collation objects on Windows, which before this would only let you make "C" collation objects. Hence, even though this is a bug fix IMO, it doesn't seem worth the trouble to back-patch. In passing, suppress the DROP CASCADE detail messages at the end of the collation regression test. I'm surprised we've never been bit by message ordering issues there. Per report from Murtuza Zabuawala. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKKotZS-wcDcofXDCH=sidiuajE+nqHn2CGjLLX78anyDmi3gQ@mail.gmail.com
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