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Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] char/varchar locale support

Oleg Broytmann <phd@comus.ru>

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From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@comus.ru>
To: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: Postgres Hackers List <hackers@postgreSQL.org>, oleg@sai.msu.su
Date: 1998-05-15T13:43:07Z
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Hi!

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> Another possibility for implementation is to write a string comparison
> routine (e.g. varlena_cmp()) which takes two arguments and returns -1,
> 0, or 1 for less than, equals, and greater than. All of the comparison
> routines can call that one (which would have the #if USE_LOCALE), rather
> than having USE_LOCALE spread through each comparison routine.

   Yes, I thinked about this recently. It seems the best solution, perhaps.
   Thank you. I'll continue my work.

Oleg.
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