Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> It looks like NAME comparison uses strcmp (actually strncmp). So it'll
>> be numeric byte-code order.
>> There's no particular reason we couldn't make that be strcoll instead,
>> I suppose, except perhaps speed.
> But how will this work when we have per-column/datum collation order?
> And what about languages that don't have any useful collation order for
> their alphabets (far east)? ISTM that a globally viable feature of this
> sort would have to sort by something numeric.
I'm confused; are you saying that NAME's sort behavior is good as-is?
If not, what would you have it do differently?
regards, tom lane
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