Re: [PERFORM] performance impact of non-C locale

2008-09-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Axel Rau wrote: Im not yet convinced to switch to non-C locale. Is the following intended behavior: With lc_ctype C: select lower('ÄÖÜ'); => ÄÖÜ With lc_ctype en_US.utf8 select lower('ÆÅË'); => æåë ? (Both have server encoding UTF8) I would expect exactly that. -- Sent via pgsql-p

Re: [PERFORM] performance impact of non-C locale

2008-09-11 Thread Axel Rau
Am 11.09.2008 um 11:29 schrieb Peter Eisentraut: What other performance impacts can be expected? The performance impact is mainly with string comparisons and sorts. I suggest you run your own tests to find out what is acceptable in your scenario. Im not yet convinced to switch to non-C

Re: [PERFORM] performance impact of non-C locale

2008-09-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Axel Rau wrote: some erp software requires a change of my pgsql cluster from locale Cencoding UTF-8 to locale de_DE.UTF-8encoding UTF-8 Most of my databases have only ASCII text data (8 bit UTF8 code range) in the text columns. Does the above change influence index performa

[PERFORM] performance impact of non-C locale

2008-09-07 Thread Axel Rau
Hi everyone, some erp software requires a change of my pgsql cluster from locale Cencoding UTF-8 to locale de_DE.UTF-8 encoding UTF-8 Most of my databases have only ASCII text data (8 bit UTF8 code range) in the text columns. Does the above change influenc