On 2020-11-20 08:13, Dirk Mika wrote:
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.
There is a SET COLLATION command in the SQL standard that does this. Someone just has to implement it. It wouldn't be terribly difficult, I think.
