Tom Lane writes: > In the meantime, we still have the question of whether to enable > multibyte in the default configuration.
This would make more sense if all of multibyte, locale, and NLS became defaults in one release. I haven't quite sold people in the second item yet, although I have a design how to do that (see below). And the third, well who knows... Perhaps we could make it a release goal for 7.3 to * Optimize i18n stuff to have a minimal performance penalty when it's not used. (locale=C etc.) * Make i18n stuff sufficiently well-behaved to make it the default. (Especially, add initdb options and GUC parameters to set the locale. Don't rely on environment variables -- too complicated.) Meanwhile, quadratic performance penalties (or so it seems) for LIKE expressions aren't exactly a "minor" problem. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
