Re: Natural sort order extension.

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, 19:55 Laurenz Albe, <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:

> On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 18:45 +0300, Dmitry Igrishin wrote:
> > I've implemented a PostgreSQL extension for natural sort order. I.e.
> > strings like "z20", "z0004", "z11", "z2" sorted in ascending order as
> > "z2", "z0004", "z11", "z20".
> >
> > Currently it implements the type textnso which is binary-coercible
> > to/from the text type. It's possible to declare table columns of type
> > textnso and create indexes on them.
> >
> > Details are here https://github.com/dmitigr/pgnso
> >
> > Any feedback are welcome!
>
> I don't want to detract from this, but from PostgreSQL v10 on you can use
> ICU collations with the "kn-true" variant to have natural sort order.
>
Thanks for the point. But my extension works with default collation and
UTF-8 encoding. And ICU is not required.

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