Re: Set COLLATE on a session level

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Dirk Mika <Dirk(dot)Mika(at)mikatiming(dot)de>, "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Set COLLATE on a session level
Date: 2020-11-20 11:31:42
Message-ID: 9fd0eef06639e633e258461e5baad9734bcbc1ba.camel@cybertec.at
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On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 07:13 +0000, Dirk Mika wrote:
> we come from the Oracle world and we have an application that, depending on a setting,
> sends the command ALTER SESSION SET NLS_SORT=... when connecting to the database.
>
> Is there a similar way to set a COLLATE for a session in PostgreSQL?
>
> I know that I can specify a COLLATE for a SELECT statement in the ORDER BY Clause,
> but then I would have to adjust the statements in the client and statements that are
> automatically generated by the database components used, would not be affected.

There is no way to do that in PostgreSQL.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com

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