-Original Message-
From: pgsql-hackers-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-
ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of MauMau
Hello,
I think it would be nice for PostgreSQL to support national character
types
largely because it should ease migration from other DBMSs.
[Reasons why we
From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com]
Boguk, Maksym escribió:
I think I give a wrong description there... it will be not GUC but
GUC-type value which will be initialized during CREATE DATABASE and
will be read only after, very similar to the lc_collate.
So I think
From: Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com writes:
Also, as far as I understand what we want to control here is the
encoding that the strings are in (the mapping of bytes to
characters),
not the collation (the way a set of strings are ordered). So
-Original Message-
From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:is...@postgresql.org]
Also I don't understand why you need UTF-16 support as a database
encoding
because UTF-8 and UTF-16 are logically equivalent, they are just
different
represention (encoding) of Unicode. That means if we already
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Pavel Stehule
pavel.steh...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, what I know almost all use utf8 without problems. Long time I
didn't see any request for multi encoding support.
Well, not *everything* can be represented as UTF-8; I think this is
particularly an issue
Ishii san,
Thank you for your positive and early response.
-Original Message-
From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:is...@postgresql.org]
Sent: Friday, 5 July 2013 3:02 PM
To: Arulappan, Arul Shaji
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal - Support for National
-Original Message-
From: Claudio Freire [mailto:klaussfre...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 5 July 2013 3:41 PM
To: Tatsuo Ishii
Cc: Arulappan, Arul Shaji; PostgreSQL-Dev
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal - Support for National Characters
functionality
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:02 AM
This is a proposal to implement functionalities for the handling of
National Characters.
[Introduction]
The aim of this proposal is to eventually have a way to represent
'National Characters' in a uniform way, even in non-UTF8 encoded
databases. Many of our customers in the Asian region who are
