| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: locale |
| Date: | 2004-04-12 18:02:26 |
| Message-ID: | 200404121802.i3CI2Q719051@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > It's certainly ungood, but I don't think we can materially improve
> > things without a fundamental rewrite along the lines of Peter's
> > proposal to support per-column locale/encoding. Database-level
> > settings are simply the wrong tool for this.
>
> Well, the complete redo is about two years out if you ask me. Allowing
> the locale to be set on a database level would already improve things a
> lot for many people. Since we have a perfectly good reindex command, I
> think the problems that we have discussed are not showstoppers.
I added a TODO item for fixing per-database locales, so we are ready if
someone wants to code it:
o Allow locale to be set at database creation
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