On 7/15/13 1:26 AM, Arulappan, Arul Shaji wrote:
> Yes, the idea is that users will be able to declare columns of type
> NCHAR or NVARCHAR which will use the pre-determined encoding type. If we
> say that NCHAR is UTF-8 then the NCHAR column will be of UTF-8 encoding
> irrespective of the database encoding. It will be up to us to restrict
> what Unicode encodings we want to support for NCHAR/NVARCHAR columns.
I would try implementing this as an extension at first, with a new data
type that is internally encoded differently. We have citext as
precedent for successfully implementing text-like data types in user space.
