Dionisis Kontominas <dkontomi...@gmail.com> writes:
> Let's say that the definition is for example as follows:
> name character varying(8) COLLATE pg_catalog."C" NOT NULL
> and also assume that the database default encoding is UTF8 and also the
> Collate and Ctype is "C"". I plan to store strings of various languages in
> this field.
> Are these the correct settings that I should have used on creation of
> the database?.
Well, it won't crash or anything, but sorting will be according
to byte-by-byte values. So the sort order of non-ASCII text is
likely to look odd. How much do you care about that?
regards, tom lane
