Re: default locale considered harmful? (was Re: [GENERAL] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From scott.marlowe
Subject Re: default locale considered harmful? (was Re: [GENERAL]
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0306090846450.1952-100000@css120.ihs.com
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In response to Re: default locale considered harmful? (was Re: [GENERAL]  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: default locale considered harmful? (was Re: [GENERAL]  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> scott.marlowe wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > 
> > > scott.marlowe writes:
> > > 
> > > > If indexes on text worked right in other locales it would be no big deal.
> > > 
> > > They will in version 7.4, so all these concerns about trading off locale
> > > use vs. performance will become obsolete.
> > 
> > Oh!  I thought there were still issues that couldn't be worked out on that 
> > front.  In that case, heck yeah, set the locale on initdb to the current 
> > system locale.  sweet.
> 
> The problems go away _if_ the user knows about the new way of indexing
> LIKE on non-C locales.

Should we have something about this mentioned in 

http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/install-upgrading.html

for the 7.4 release?  Or is there a more appropriate place?



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