Re: using strxfrm for having multi locale/please vote for - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: using strxfrm for having multi locale/please vote for
Date
Msg-id 200506071435.j57EZVx04609@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: using strxfrm for having multi locale/please vote for  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@surnet.cl>)
Responses Re: using strxfrm for having multi locale/please vote for  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:11:15PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Greg Stark wrote:
>
> > > Yes it's true that on some OSes it wouldn't be tolerably efficient but on
> > > glibc it's more than tolerable. If better solutions (strxfrm_l) become
> > > available at some point in the future then it would be about as efficient as
> > > it could be on platforms where those features are available.
> >
> > There are some things I think ICU can fix for us like indexing non-C
> > localed columns.
>
> Huh, we already do that, don't we?

Sorry, I meant LIKE index usage for non-C columns.  We can do that now
with a special LIKE indexing method, but this would allow normal indexes
to work.

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