Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA7264FCD2 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:33:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 75078-06 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:33:35 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from gattler.pezone.net (eisentraut.org [85.214.91.16]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3224464FD17 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:33:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from dhcp-eesp05-101-109.Finland.Sun.COM (gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com [192.18.1.36]) by gattler.pezone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 233A715F0824; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:33:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <48C8F405.8080508@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:33:41 +0300 From: Peter Eisentraut User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Axel Rau CC: PostgreSQL Performance Subject: Re: performance impact of non-C locale References: <47B44B1F-2DE2-4E7F-97C6-1599510AD8F1@Chaos1.DE> <48C8E507.1090100@gmx.net> <8922E1A9-A013-4200-96D3-CDAD99C29530@chaos1.de> In-Reply-To: <8922E1A9-A013-4200-96D3-CDAD99C29530@chaos1.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200809/133 X-Sequence-Number: 31446 Axel Rau wrote: > Im not yet convinced to switch to non-C locale. Is the following > intended behavior: > With lc_ctype C: select lower('ÄÖÜ'); => ÄÖÜ > With lc_ctype en_US.utf8 select lower('ÆÅË'); => æåë > ? (Both have server encoding UTF8) I would expect exactly that.