Re: Encoding/collation question
Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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Karsten Hilbert <[email protected]> writes: > Question: is C collation expected to be future-proof / > rock-solid /stable -- like UTF8 for encoding choice -- or > could it end up like the SQL-ASCII encoding did: Yeah, we > support it, it's been in use a long time, it should work, > but, nah, one doesn't really want to choose it over UTF8 if > at all possible, or at least know *exactly* what one is doing > and BTW YMMV ? C collation basically devolves to strcmp/memcmp, which are as standard and well-defined as can be. If you're happy with the way it sorts things then there's no reason not to use it. It's actually all the *other* collations where you should worry about their behavior being a moving target :-(. regards, tom lane