Personally,
I'd like to see LOCALE done away with, everything be in UTF-8, and have
a POSGRES extension that sets the sort order as an itemized listing of
mime type languages like:
SET COLLATION( en-us, fr, ru ).
Everything NOT in those character sets, falls below them in the sort
order, but stays in it's tabular order, otherwise.
PS. We are sure lucky in the western world that we have such a
simplistic alphabet.
Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>
> > According to the postgres 7.3.2 docs, initializing a database cluster
> > with LC_COLLATE set to anything other than "C" will disable the use of
> > indexes during LIKE searches. This presents a bit of a problem for
> > me, since the client application I'm writing uses LIKE searches and
> > ships internationally. As I understand it, I can have good
> > performance, or locale-specific ORDER BY output, but not both. Is
> > there a plan to remove this limitation?
> Question seconded (and tacit suggestion for a TODO item) on
> behalf of GnuMed (www.gnumed.org).
>
> Karsten Hilbert, MD
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