Re: settings for multi-language unicode DB - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: settings for multi-language unicode DB
Date
Msg-id 200511240435.jAO4ZjY26831@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to settings for multi-language unicode DB  (Janet Bagg <J.Bagg@kent.ac.uk>)
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Janet Bagg wrote:
> Please could somebody give me advice on settings for PGSQL with a database
> with UTF-8 strings in a large number of languages? I've had no problems so
> far in storing/retrieving UTF-8 strings but can't find clear answers to
> other issues.
>
> What locale would be best for sorting this dataset? Does it have to be the
> same as the one set for the OS (these seem very limited for Solaris)?

Yes, right now PostgreSQL uses the operating system to do locale
ordering.  That might change in a future release.

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