Re: locale

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: locale
Date: 2004-04-12 17:31:39
Message-ID: 200404121931.39344.peter_e@gmx.net
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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.

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