Re: Encoding names

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> > You not must change current names, you can add to pg_conv_tbl[] new lines
> > with names synonym for already existing encoding...
> > {LATIN1, "LATIN1", 0, latin12mic, mic2latin1, 0, 0},
> > {LATIN1, "ISO-8859-1", 0, latin12mic, mic2latin1, 0, 0},
> > And if you order this table by alphabet and in pg_char_to_encoding()
> > you use Knuth's binary search intead current seq. scannig by for() every
> > thing will faster and more nice. It's easy.
>
> As you probably know, there is already a binary search algorithm coded
> up for the date/time string lookups in utils/adt/datetime.c. Since that
> lookup caches the last value (which could be done here too) most lookups
> are immediate.
>
> Are you proposing to make a change Karel, or just encouraging others? :)
>

No problem for me. Do you want patch with this to tommorow breakfast?
IMHO it's acceptable for current 7.1 too, it's really small change.

Or do it Tatsuo?

Karel