Setting locale per connection

Hi all,

I'm new to the list, so don't flame at the first date ;).

I usually use PostgreSQL for multiple languages, so I needed to
set locale per connection, or can change the locale on the fly.  
I don't know if there is any such ability integrated in or not,
so I have wrote my 10lines function as a wrapper around
setlocale, that is attached.  So what I do is just a simple
"SELECT locale('LC_COLLATE', 'fa_IR');" at connection time. Let
me know if there is any standard way already implemented.

Another silly question, isn't any way to get rid of seqscan, when 
doing 'SELECT count(*) FROM tab;'?

Yours,
behdad

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Behdad Esfahbod        11 Tir 1382, 2003 Jul 2 
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