On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, 19:55 Laurenz Albe, <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 18:45 +0300, Dmitry Igrishin wrote:
> I've implemented a PostgreSQL extension for natural sort order. I.e.
> strings like "z20", "z0004", "z11", "z2" sorted in ascending order as
> "z2", "z0004", "z11", "z20".
>
> Currently it implements the type textnso which is binary-coercible
> to/from the text type. It's possible to declare table columns of type
> textnso and create indexes on them.
>
> Details are here https://github.com/dmitigr/pgnso
>
> Any feedback are welcome!
I don't want to detract from this, but from PostgreSQL v10 on you can use
ICU collations with the "kn-true" variant to have natural sort order.
Thanks for the point. But my extension works with default collation and UTF-8 encoding. And ICU is not required.
