Bruce Momjian writes:
> Why don't we just spin through all 255 locale values, and find the
> lowest value that is greater than comparison target.
The issue is not that the 255 extended ASCII characters have a different
ordering in various locales (although that's part of it). The real
problem lies with multi-character collating elements, context dependent
collation order, multi-pass sorting algorithms, etc. I'm almost convinced
that it is not possible to do any such optimization as we had for the most
general case.
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