From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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To: | Behdad Esfahbod <behdad(at)bamdad(dot)org> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Setting locale per connection |
Date: | 2003-07-02 03:05:18 |
Message-ID: | 20030701200215.R65562-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com |
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> I'm new to the list, so don't flame at the first date ;).
>
> 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.
Hmm, I'd think there'd be some potential for danger there. I don't play
with the locale stuff, but if the collation changes and you've got indexed
text (varchar, char) fields, wouldn't the index no longer necessarily be
in the correct order?
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