Re: BUG #4319: lower()/upper() does not know about UNICODE case mapping

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Valentine Gogichashvili <valgog(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #4319: lower()/upper() does not know about UNICODE case mapping
Date: 2008-07-25 08:17:56
Message-ID: 48898C34.401@sun.com
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Valentine Gogichashvili napsal(a):

> Hi,

Hi

> I understand, that it is more a feature, but it does not help me anyways...
>
> On the UNICODE databases lower and upper functions are using system locale
> settings (that cannot be changed after initializing DB?) and does not know
> anything about UNICODE case mapping.
>
> The problem really becomes 'a problem' on multilingual systems. I have to
> store data for German, Russian and Romanian languages together.

I understand you and I hope things will be better. See collation per database
project: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Gsoc08-collation

Zdenek

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