Hello, we come from the Oracle world and we have an application that, depending on a setting, sends the command ALTER SESSION SET NLS_SORT=... when connecting to the database. Is there a similar way to set a COLLATE for a session in PostgreSQL? I know that I can specify a COLLATE for a SELECT statement in the ORDER BY Clause, but then I would have to adjust the statements in the client and statements that are automatically generated by the database components used, would not be affected. Regards Dirk -- Dirk Mika Software Developer mika:timing GmbH Strundepark - Kürtener Str. 11b 51465 Bergisch Gladbach Germany fon +49 2202 2401-1197 dirk.mika@xxxxxxxxxxxxx www.mikatiming.de AG Köln HRB 47509 * WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 90029884 Geschäftsführer: Harald Mika, Jörg Mika ## INEOS 1:59 memories ## https://www.facebook.com/mikatiming