Re: Fixed length data types issue - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

mark@mark.mielke.cc wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:42:09PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > But Martijn already clarified that ICU does not actually force you to
> > switch everything to UTF-16, so this is not an issue anyway.
> 
> If my memory is correct, it does this by converting it to UTF-16 first.
> This is a performance disadvantage (although it may not be worse than
> PostgreSQL's current implementation :-) ).

Actually he muttered something about iterators, and not needing to
convert anything.

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