On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 19:05, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I've mentioned a while ago that I wanted to make the --enable-locale
> switch the default (and remove the switch), and make the choice of
> locale-awareness a run-time choice. Here is how that might work. I've
> already explained how I plan to get around the performance problems, so
> this will just focus on the user interface.
>
> We currently have two kinds of locale categories: Those that must be
> fixed at initdb-time and those that may be changed at run-time.
As a more radical idea we should get rid of those which are fixed at
initdb time (except databases storage charset) and do proper NCHAR types
for anything not in C locale.
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Hannu