Re: Reducing the overhead of NUMERIC data - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> Yeah, and while one way of removing that dependance is to use ICU, that
> library wants everything in UTF-16.

Really?  Can't it do UCS4 (UTF-32)?  There's a nontrivial population
of our users that isn't satisfied with UTF-16 anyway, so if that really
is a restriction of ICU then we're going to have to look elsewhere :-(
        regards, tom lane