On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:25:16PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:07:49AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 10:17:35AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > 7.3 has some of the LC_ things exposed as GUC variables, but not
> > > COLLATE.
> >
> > Oh, sorry. By the way, why not COLLATE, why not all?
>
> That's really wierd. Anyway, it means that from a users point of view, ORDER
> BY on a string column has undefined results, since the server could be using
> any locale and you have no way of determining what it is.
I good know why PostgreSQL not use all locale, I talked about SHOW
command. Why this command not show all LC_ values? The kernel of
PostgreSQL maybe not use all locale, but my function or some built-in
routines can use it (for example to_char()) and the SHOW command is
good way how check setting.
Karel
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