Re: [PATCHES] Postgres-6.3.2 locale patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oleg Broytmann
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Postgres-6.3.2 locale patch
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.3.96.SK.980604103637.346I-100000@torus.comus.ru
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Postgres-6.3.2 locale patch  ("Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
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Hello!

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> Hi. I'm looking for non-English-using Postgres hackers to participate in
> implementing NCHAR() and alternate character sets in Postgres. I think
> I've worked out how to do the implementation (not the details, just a
> strategy) so that multiple character sets will be allowed in a single
> database, additional character sets can be loaded at run-time, and so
> that everything will behave transparently.

   All this sounds nice, but I am afraid the job is not for me. Actually I
am very new to Postgres and SQL world. I started to learn SQL 3 months ago;
I started to play with Postgres 2 months ago. I started to hack Potsgres
sources (about locale) a little more than a month ago.

> 2) Would anyone be interested in helping to define the character sets
> and helping to test? I don't know the correct collation sequences and
> don't think they would display properly on my screen...

   It would be nice to test it, providing that it wouldn't break existing
code. Our site is running hundreds CGIs that rely on current locale support
in Postgres...

Oleg.
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