| From: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | "Behdad Esfahbod" <behdad(at)bamdad(dot)org>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Setting locale per connection |
| Date: | 2003-07-02 03:12:42 |
| Message-ID: | 072b01c34047$cd612fa0$2800a8c0@mars |
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> I usually use PostgreSQL for multiple languages, so I needed to
> set locale per connection, or can change the locale on the fly.
> I don't know if there is any such ability integrated in or not,
> so I have wrote my 10lines function as a wrapper around
> setlocale, that is attached. So what I do is just a simple
> "SELECT locale('LC_COLLATE', 'fa_IR');" at connection time. Let
> me know if there is any standard way already implemented.
Don't know the answer to that one..
> Another silly question, isn't any way to get rid of seqscan, when
> doing 'SELECT count(*) FROM tab;'?
No, there's not. Due to PostgreSQL design restrictions. Just avoid doing
it, or use a trigger to keep a summary table or something.
Chris
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