Re: defining Your own sort order for already compiled PostgreSQL

Adam Radlowski wrote:
> I can't find in the documentation, if it is possible to define our own
> sort order for already compiled PostgreSQL.
> I need it, because the best for my now building application were be to
> build sort with normal LATIN2 sort order (for non alphanumeric chars
> compatible with ASCII sort order).
> I saw in the "configure" file, that it is possible to define, what is
> alpha, what is number and so on, but it is inpossible to
> administrators of ready for use systems to - always recompile
> PostgreSQL for only one application.
> With greetings
> Adam

Adam,

I am not sure I completely understand what you're trying to do -
however, initdb can set the locale for a cluster including setting
specific locales for collation (which is what I think you want to do).
I suppose you can invent your own locale if you need some special sort
order.

These choices are frozen for the cluster (except that you can change the
encoding for a specific database within the cluster, but that isn't
going to do what you want, which is change the sort order).

So, if you can re-run initdb then you can do what you want without
recompiling.

See "man initdb" ...

Hope this helps,

Robin