Re: Problem with PostgreSQL string sorting

From: Hari Sankar A <hsshanthamhari(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problem with PostgreSQL string sorting
Date: 2017-02-15 17:26:47
Message-ID: CAL1h+Q9BzgtPv=mNbHLv9-gaajHPsN9t9wsqPMha-Adcb2ycEQ@mail.gmail.com
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Thank you all for your valuable comments.

I will work on glibc to get this feature.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Hari
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:14 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > I believe most versions of libc use declarative specifications of locale
> > properties, so if you wanted to spend some time learning the language in
> > which those are written, you could make and install a locale that acts
> > like you want. It's possible there's one out there already, because
> > a lot of people seem to want that.
>
> True. And, the declarative language glibc uses doesn't look that
> complicated to me. However, you'd really have to vendor your own glibc
> to make this work, since they are compiled to some binary
> representation when glibc is built. That's probably prohibitively
> complicated to manage.
>
> --
> Peter Geoghegan
>

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