Specifying locale: short form

Vertica accepts locales in short form.

Vertica accepts locales in short form. You can use the short form to specify the locale and keyname pair/value names.

To determine the short form for a locale, type in the long form and view the last line of INFO, as follows:

\locale frINFO:  Locale: 'fr'
INFO:    French
INFO:    franÃ§ais
INFO:  Short form: 'LFR'

Examples

Specify en (English) locale:

\locale LENINFO:  Locale: 'en'
INFO:  English
INFO:  Short form: 'LEN'

Specify German locale as used in Germany (de), with phonebook-style collation:

\locale LDE_KPHONEBOOKINFO:  Locale: 'de@collation=phonebook'
INFO:  German (collation=Phonebook Sort Order)
INFO:  Deutsch (Sortierung=Telefonbuch-Sortierregeln)
INFO:  Short form: 'KPHONEBOOK_LDE'

Specify German locale as used in Germany (de), with phonebook-style collation:

\locale LDE_KPHONEBOOK_S2INFO:  Locale: 'de@collation=phonebook'
INFO:  German (collation=Phonebook Sort Order)
INFO:  Deutsch (Sortierung=Telefonbuch-Sortierregeln)
INFO:  Short form: 'KPHONEBOOK_LDE_S2'