> Do any of the encodings with encoding max length > 1 have a constant > character size (e.g. unicode?). If so, how hard would it be to add > another member to pg_wchar_tbl, say: > > bool mblen_is_const; /* all chars = max bytes this charset */ > > Then those character sets code gain back much of the same speed > advantages as single byte character sets when it comes to string processing.
Sounds interesting idea, but none of encodings currently PostgreSQL supports has fixed length character size. UCS-2/UCS-4 is such an encoding, we do not support it however. -- Tatsuo Ishii ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
