Re: [HACKERS] I18N support in InterBase

> I have douwnloaded InterBase 4.0 for Linux from
> http://www.interbase.com/download/linux/ and am amazed by its I18N
> support.  It doesn't have NATIONAL CHARACTER yet. It do support
> CHRACTER SET syntax for CREATE DATABASE/CREATE TABLE/ALTER TABLE etc.,
> however.  Also, it has COLLATE syntax in WHERE/ORDER BY/GROUP BY.  If
> you were interested in how it does it, you could get PDF manulas from
> same URL(Lang_Ref.pdf in IB_4.0_docs.tar.gz).
>
> Talking about performance, InterBase is a little bit faster than
> PostgreSQL 6.3.2 when using indexes, but is slower if no index exists.
                                              ^^^^^^

Interesting.

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