Message-Id: <200302192016.h1JKGSEU014871@tksoft.com>
Subject: Re: once again, sorting with Unicode
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:16:28 -0800 (PST)
Cc: postgre@totw.org (JBJ), pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Reply-To: tjk@tksoft.com (Troy K.), <tjk@tksoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <11412.1045668157@sss.pgh.pa.us> from "Tom Lane" at Feb 19,
	2003 10:22:37 AM
From: "Troy" <tjk@tksoft.com>
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You can generate indexes for your custom functions, though,
which will speed things up. This is what I've done, successfully.


Troy


> 
> JBJ <postgre@totw.org> writes:
> > Furthermore I will have to be able to switch between is_IS and others to 
> > get the correct sort order ( russian sort order different from icelandic 
> > for example, simply due to the nature of the letters) live when the user 
> > selects a different language.
> 
> Postgres can't do that at the moment :-(.  You might be able to hack up
> some custom functions to do something like
> 	ORDER BY icelandic(text_col)
> but it'll be messy, and probably slow.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 
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