Re: ISN was: Core Extensions relocation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ISN was: Core Extensions relocation
Date
Msg-id 10453.1321414849@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: ISN was: Core Extensions relocation  (Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> If we can't put isn out of its misery, a sensible compromise would be
> to rip out the prefix enforcement feature so that, for example, ISBN13
> behaved exactly the same as EAN13.

That might be a reasonable compromise.  Certainly the check-digit
calculation is much more useful for validity checking than the prefix
checking.
        regards, tom lane


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