Re: locale

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > It's certainly ungood, but I don't think we can materially improve
> > things without a fundamental rewrite along the lines of Peter's
> > proposal to support per-column locale/encoding.  Database-level
> > settings are simply the wrong tool for this.
> 
> Well, the complete redo is about two years out if you ask me.  Allowing 
> the locale to be set on a database level would already improve things a 
> lot for many people.  Since we have a perfectly good reindex command, I 
> think the problems that we have discussed are not showstoppers.

I added a TODO item for fixing per-database locales, so we are ready if
someone wants to code it:
o Allow locale to be set at database creation

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