| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "- -" <crossroads0000(at)googlemail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Unicode support |
| Date: | 2009-04-14 18:22:43 |
| Message-ID: | 200904142122.44907.peter_e@gmx.net |
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On Tuesday 14 April 2009 19:26:41 Tom Lane wrote:
> Another question is "what is the purpose of a database"? To me it would
> be quite the wrong thing for the DB to not store what is presented, as
> long as it's considered legal. Normalization of legal variant forms
> seems pretty questionable. So I'm with the camp that says this is the
> application's responsibility.
I think automatically normalizing or otherwise fiddling with Unicode strings
with combining characters is not acceptable. But the point is that we should
process equivalent forms in a consistent way.
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