Re: Index problem

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> But it hasn't got done yet.  (Peter, would it be
>> easy to make GUC handle this?  There'd need to be some way to cause
>> guc.c to do a putenv() ...)

> I thought pg_control was the place for this.  Any idea how long a locale
> string can legally be?  Doesn't look too hard beyond that.

That would work too, I guess.

> Then again, perhaps this should be a per-database thing, much like the
> encoding.  The postmaster doesn't do any collating, so it should be safe
> to have different locale in different backends. -- Unless someone puts an
> index on pg_database.datname. :-)

There already is an index on pg_group.groname, so I think we'd better be
conservative and require the same locale across the whole installation.

Hmm ... doesn't that mean that per-database encoding is a bogus concept
too!?
        regards, tom lane