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Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>

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From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chris.kings-lynne@calorieking.com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Philippe Schmid <phschmid@cadinfo.ch>
Date: 2006-05-19T21:24:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Ühel kenal päeval, R, 2006-05-19 kell 09:40, kirjutas Christopher
Kings-Lynne:
> > We also need better support for non C locales in tsearch.  As I was porting 
> > mysql's sakila sample database I was reminded just how painful it is when you 
> > initdb in a non-supported locale (which is probably the default on the 
> > majority of distros out there)
> 
> 
> In 8.2 tsearch2 supports utf8...

Utf8 is encoding, but I guess that tsearch2 does not care much about
locales ?

tsearch2 does not do sorts, but it may care about upper()/lower() for
languages that support it, so there our locale support should be good
for utf8 encoding if we care about language-specific case insensitivity.


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