| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Tomi NA <hefest(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: picking the correct locale when doing initdb |
| Date: | 2006-03-17 16:13:14 |
| Message-ID: | 20060317161314.GB7887@svana.org |
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:21:56PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> In any case having actually implemented multilingual sites I can't imagine one
> locale per table being useful at all. You always end up wanting per column,
> even per array element locales.
Exactly, in the SQL standard it's referred to an COLLATE and it has
fairly detailed rules about how to deal with cross-column comparisons.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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