Setting locale per connection

From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad(at)bamdad(dot)org>
To: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Setting locale per connection
Date: 2003-07-02 02:52:51
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0307020717040.20969-200000@gilas.bamdad.org
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Hi all,

I'm new to the list, so don't flame at the first date ;).

I usually use PostgreSQL for multiple languages, so I needed to
set locale per connection, or can change the locale on the fly.
I don't know if there is any such ability integrated in or not,
so I have wrote my 10lines function as a wrapper around
setlocale, that is attached. So what I do is just a simple
"SELECT locale('LC_COLLATE', 'fa_IR');" at connection time. Let
me know if there is any standard way already implemented.

Another silly question, isn't any way to get rid of seqscan, when
doing 'SELECT count(*) FROM tab;'?

Yours,
behdad

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Behdad Esfahbod 11 Tir 1382, 2003 Jul 2
http://behdad.org/ [Finger for Geek Code]

If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it.

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