> Tom Lane writes: > > > In the meantime, we still have the question of whether to enable > > multibyte in the default configuration. > > This would make more sense if all of multibyte, locale, and NLS became > defaults in one release. I haven't quite sold people in the second item > yet, although I have a design how to do that (see below). And the third, > well who knows... > > Perhaps we could make it a release goal for 7.3 to > > * Optimize i18n stuff to have a minimal performance penalty when it's not > used. (locale=C etc.) > > * Make i18n stuff sufficiently well-behaved to make it the default. > (Especially, add initdb options and GUC parameters to set the locale. > Don't rely on environment variables -- too complicated.) > > Meanwhile, quadratic performance penalties (or so it seems) for LIKE > expressions aren't exactly a "minor" problem. >
Added to TODO: * Optimize locale to have minimal performance impact when not used (Peter E) -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
