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> The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that this isn't the right thing to do. We shouldn't be making collation decisions for the people using...

> The thing is, we don't. We just default to whatever the DBA has configured things for. Then I believe we should follow PostgreSQL recommendation. > It might be more...

> And again, there's a world outside the USA which do need and use different collations. If you don't take the characters used in other countries seriously, I boycott your...

> What is the goal about having data stored as UTF-8 and sorted by something that doesn't contain most of the characters that are available? As a user of Sqitch,...

That would remove the need from re-indexing due to collation version mismatch (see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-altercollation.html#SQL-ALTERCOLLATION-NOTES) since the C collation does not change.

> even the C and POSIX collations can change when you upgrade glibc I was under the impression that C collation doesn't ever change after reading a comment from @laurenz...

Why imposing one's political views such as via this PR on a community that extend beyond the ones sharing these political views?

How is my comment questioning about this “not the right place to discuss these!” and marked as as off topic despite questioning precisely the motivations for this PR? How come...