Re: locale - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: locale
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Msg-id 200404121931.39344.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: locale  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> It's certainly ungood, but I don't think we can materially improve
> things without a fundamental rewrite along the lines of Peter's
> proposal to support per-column locale/encoding.  Database-level
> settings are simply the wrong tool for this.

Well, the complete redo is about two years out if you ask me.  Allowing 
the locale to be set on a database level would already improve things a 
lot for many people.  Since we have a perfectly good reindex command, I 
think the problems that we have discussed are not showstoppers.



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