> > Yes. Consider you have UNICODE database and want to sort by French or
> > whatever LATIN locale.
> > SELECT * FROM t1 ORDER BY convert(text_column,'LATIN1');
> > would be the only way to accomplish that.
>
> That in itself would not get the job done; how is the sort operator
> to know what collation order you want?
I assume the locale support enabled of course.
> The SQL92 spec suggests that the syntax should be
>
> ... ORDER BY text_column COLLATE French;
>
> (note collation names are not standardized AFAICT). Seems to me it
> should then be the system's responsibility to make this happen,
> including any encoding conversion that might be needed before the
> comparisons could be done.
I'm not talking about our (hopefully) upcoming implementation of SQL92
COLLATE syntax. It's ideal and should be our goal, but what I have
shown is how we could do the job in 7.2 now.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
