On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 07:13 +0000, Dirk Mika wrote:
> we come from the Oracle world and we have an application that, depending on a setting,
> sends the command ALTER SESSION SET NLS_SORT=... when connecting to the database.
>
> Is there a similar way to set a COLLATE for a session in PostgreSQL?
>
> I know that I can specify a COLLATE for a SELECT statement in the ORDER BY Clause,
> but then I would have to adjust the statements in the client and statements that are
> automatically generated by the database components used, would not be affected.
There is no way to do that in PostgreSQL.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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