From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Vsevolod Lobko <seva(at)sevasoft(dot)kiev(dot)ua> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Patch for pl/tcl Tcl_ExternalToUtf and Tcl_UtfToExternal support |
Date: | 2001-08-23 22:48:44 |
Message-ID: | 200108232248.f7NMmir13980@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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> > Vsevolod Lobko writes:
> >
> > > > Is there a way to make this automatically enabled based on the TCL
> > > > version? Does that make sense?
> > >
> > > This adds significant overhead to pl/tcl calls :((
> > > so I'm not sure that anybody want this functionality enabled by default
> >
> > It is my understanding that Tcl 8.3 will not work with 8 bit characters
> > without this functionality. That would simply be unacceptable. If users
>
> Really - yes.
> I can make this automatic based on tcl version if performance penalty on
> tcl>=8.3 is acceptable.
It is my understanding that the UTF penalty applies to all the TCL
versions >= 8.1 and that there is debate whether this is a good idea or
not. However, seeing as TCL has the penalty, I don't see a problem
with having the same penalty in our code.
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