Re: Encoding/collation question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rich Shepard
Subject Re: Encoding/collation question
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Msg-id alpine.LNX.2.20.1912120536320.8975@salmo.appl-ecosys.com
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In response to Re: Encoding/collation question  (Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, 12 Dec 2019, Andrew Gierth wrote:

> Note that it's perfectly fine to use UTF8 encoding and C collation (this
> has the effect of sorting strings in Unicode codepoint order); this is as
> fast for comparisons as LATIN1/C is.

Andrew,

This is really useful insight. I've not thought of the relationship of
encoding to collation (which I now know there isn't.)

> For those cases where you need data to be sorted in a
> culturally-meaningful order rather than in codepoint order, you can set
> collations on specific columns or in individual queries.

Not an issue for my work. :-)

Thanks very much,

Rich



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