Re: Difference between C and en_US.UTF-8 Collate & CType in Postgres 10.x - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Difference between C and en_US.UTF-8 Collate & CType in Postgres 10.x
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Msg-id 22688.1537115117@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Difference between C and en_US.UTF-8 Collate & CType inPostgres 10.x  (Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>)
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Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
> Debraj Manna wrote:
>> Will there be any other difference like in terms of index size, etc?

> The size will be the same, just the ordering will be different.

Just to clarify, index sizes might not be *exactly* the same.  Different
ordering rules might lead to different upper-page-split choices as the
index grows, resulting in different amounts of unused space in some index
pages.  It should average out to about the same thing though.

            regards, tom lane


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