Re: locale

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: locale
Date: 2004-04-07 18:42:40
Message-ID: 200404071842.i37IgeG00434@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I was asking why we can't set it to a new static value when we create
> > the database.
>
> Because that would corrupt indexes on shared tables. (It might be
> possible to finesse that, but it's not a no-brainer.)

Oh, I hadn't thought of that. The problem isn't encoding, because we
handle that already, but differen representations of time and stuff?

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