Re: What's a good default encoding? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: What's a good default encoding?
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In response to Re: What's a good default encoding?  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:54:36AM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Is there any downside to using the C locale with UTF-8 encoding (on
> linux)?  I need things to run quickly and proper sort order is not
> critically important (but storage of international characters is).

Sure, why not. C locale is the fastest and if the sort order is close
enough, go for it.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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