On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:24:29PM +0200, Radek Strnad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after long discussion with Mr. Kotala, we've decided to redesign our
> collation support proposal.
> For those of you who aren't familiar with my WIP patch and comments from
> other hackers here's the original mail:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg00019.php
<snip>
> phase 1
> Implement "sort of framework" so the PostgreSQL will have basic guts
> (pg_collation & pg_charset catalogs, CREATE COLLATION, add collation support
> for each type needed) and will support collation at database level. This
> phase has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code project.
Why bother with pg_charset? I don't think I've seen anyone even asking
for multiple charsets in a single DB and certainly no actual use case.
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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