Re: Patch for pl/tcl Tcl_ExternalToUtf and Tcl_UtfToExternal support

From: Vsevolod Lobko <seva(at)sevasoft(dot)kiev(dot)ua>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch for pl/tcl Tcl_ExternalToUtf and Tcl_UtfToExternal support
Date: 2001-08-23 22:04:21
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> 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.

> want better performance they should use a different Tcl version, but we
> should not override Tcl's design decisions unilaterally.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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