Re: using strxfrm for having multi locale/please vote for

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Mahmoud Taghizadeh <m_taghi(at)yahoo(dot)com>, peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org, mail(at)joeconway(dot)com, sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: using strxfrm for having multi locale/please vote for
Date: 2005-06-07 04:36:41
Message-ID: 20050607043641.GB15923@surnet.cl
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:11:15PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Greg Stark wrote:

> > Yes it's true that on some OSes it wouldn't be tolerably efficient but on
> > glibc it's more than tolerable. If better solutions (strxfrm_l) become
> > available at some point in the future then it would be about as efficient as
> > it could be on platforms where those features are available.
>
> There are some things I think ICU can fix for us like indexing non-C
> localed columns.

Huh, we already do that, don't we?

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]surnet.cl>)
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