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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 14:21, Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> wrote:
> If performance is an issue, I'd suggest coding it as a C function.
>
> A quick google search turned up:
> http://discuss.fogcreek.com/techInterview/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=2077
> for possible implementations.
>
> Of course, for Postgres we'd use pmalloc/pfree instead of malloc/free,
> as the result value will be a Datum.
These can't be adapted directly because they don't behave right in
UTF-8 encoding.
However, there's already a C implementation in the "orafce" project,
no point in reinventing the wheel:
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/orafce/
I have created a wiki page for collecting the most useful
implementations. Anyone is welcome to improve:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reverse_string
(I didn't include Pavel Stehule's implementation because that only
works on 9.0, not earlier. I did include another SQL implementation)
Regards,
Marti
