Re: Changing the concept of a DATABASE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Changing the concept of a DATABASE
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Msg-id 1423.1337701375@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Changing the concept of a DATABASE  (Susanne Ebrecht <susanne@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Susanne Ebrecht <susanne@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> The use case in my mind for accessing more databases is when you want to
> access stuff different languages.

> You only can set encoding / LC_Collate per database not per schema.

> So for different languages you might need different databases to do 
> correct sorting / indexing.

Encoding yes, but since 9.1 we have pretty fine-grained control of
collation.  So I think this argument is a lot weaker than it used
to be.  It would only really apply if you have one of the corner
cases where utf8 doesn't work for you.
        regards, tom lane


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