| From: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, 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 17:43:30 |
| Message-ID: | 4D6C89D9-ABC9-41FF-9626-AF1B06BA2BA2@kineticode.com |
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On Apr 14, 2009, at 9:26 AM, 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.
Can `convert()` normalize strings?
Best,
David
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