Re: default locale considered harmful? (was Re: [GENERAL]

scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > scott.marlowe wrote:
> > > On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > >
> > > > scott.marlowe writes:
> > > >
> > > > > If indexes on text worked right in other locales it would be no big deal.
> > > >
> > > > They will in version 7.4, so all these concerns about trading off locale
> > > > use vs. performance will become obsolete.
> > >
> > > Oh! I thought there were still issues that couldn't be worked out on that
> > > front. In that case, heck yeah, set the locale on initdb to the current
> > > system locale. sweet.
> >
> > The problems go away _if_ the user knows about the new way of indexing
> > LIKE on non-C locales.
>
> Should we have something about this mentioned in
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/install-upgrading.html
>
> for the 7.4 release? Or is there a more appropriate place?

Yes, at a minimum, plus we need someone coming fresh to 7.5 to know this
is an issue.

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