Re: Unicode combining characters

If no one can find a case where multibyte is slower, I think we should
enable it by default. Comments?

> > Also, have we decided if multibyte should be the configure default now?
>
> Not sure.
>
> Anyway I have tested LIKE/REGEX query test using current. The query
> executed is:
>
> explain analyze select '0000000 5089 474e...( 16475
> bytes long text containing only 0-9a-z chars) like 'aaa';
>
> and
>
> explain analyze select '0000000 5089 474e...( 16475
> bytes long text containing only 0-9a-z chars) ~ 'aaa';
>
> Here is the result:
>
> no MB with MB
> LIKE 0.09 msec 0.08 msec
> REGEX 0.09 msec 0.10 msec
>
> LIKE with MB seemed to be resonably fast, but REGEX with MB seemed a
> little bit slow. Probably this is due the wide character conversion
> overhead.
> --
> Tatsuo Ishii
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