[orm-devel] How to handle multi language?

[Diedrich Vorberg]

Hi Ross,

> SELECT COALESCE(gr_tran,fr_tran,en_tran) as txt FROM texts WHERE txtid 
> = 123;
to do this, an expression column comes in handy. It's probably a good 
idea to define a column class, which is a subclass of text (or rather 
Unicode) that takes a tuple of column names as an attribute and maps 
them to COALESCE() calls.

Diedrich

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