Re: Re: Big 7.1 open items

> Hum.. I thought Michael Robinson is the one who is against the idea of
> rejecting "illegal" character sequences before they are put in the DB.
> I like the idea but I haven't time to do that (However I'm not sure I
> would like to do it for EUC-CN, since he dislikes the codes I write).
>
> Bruce, I would like to see followings in the TODO. I also would like
> to hear from Thomas and Peter or whoever being interested in
> implementing NATIONAL CHARACTER stuffs if they are reasonable.
>
> o Don't accept character sequences those are not valid as their charset
> (signaling ERROR seems appropriate IMHO)
>
> o Make PostgreSQL more multibyte aware (for example, TRIM function and
> NAME data type)
>
> o Regard n of CHAR(n)/VARCHAR(n) as the number of letters, rather than
> the number of bytes

Added to TODO:

* Reject character sequences those are not valid in their charset
* Make functions more multi-byte aware, i.e. trim()
* Make n of CHAR(n)/VARCHAR(n) the number of letters, not bytes

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