Re: Mixing different LC_COLLATE and database encodings

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Bill Moseley <moseley(at)hank(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Mixing different LC_COLLATE and database encodings
Date: 2006-02-18 17:57:32
Message-ID: 200602181857.33993.peter_e@gmx.net
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Bill Moseley wrote:
> What's the server encoding?

When you say "My database is in utf8", then "utf8" is the server
encoding.

> Does that mean if the encoding is anything other than "C"

C is a locale, not an encoding.

> Just that sorting utf8 is a bit more work that sorting raw bytes.

Sorting in C locale is certainly faster, but for anything else, there
won't be any noticeable difference I would think.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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