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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: Mattias Kregert <matti@algonet.se>
Cc: Postgres Hackers List <hackers@postgreSQL.org>, oleg@sai.msu.su
Date: 1998-05-18T10:28:50Z
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Hi!

On Mon, 18 May 1998, Mattias Kregert 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.
> 
> Shouldn't this be done only for NATIONAL CHAR?

   It is what USE_LOCALE is intended for, isn't it?

Oleg.
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