Re: Unicode support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Unicode support
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Msg-id 20090415162118.GB25373@svana.org
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In response to Re: Unicode support  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:32:57AM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> I've no idea what it would require, but the mapping table must be
> pretty substantial. Still, I'd love to have this functionality in the
> database.

The Unicode tables in ICU outweigh the size of the code by a factor 5
or so. Once Postgres decides it want to do unicode properly and thus
imports the tables in some way, it could get the code to work with it
for 20% extra.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.

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