Re: Reducing the overhead of NUMERIC data

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reducing the overhead of NUMERIC data
Date: 2005-11-04 19:43:16
Message-ID: 16837.1131133396@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> Yeah, and while one way of removing that dependance is to use ICU, that
> library wants everything in UTF-16.

Really? Can't it do UCS4 (UTF-32)? There's a nontrivial population
of our users that isn't satisfied with UTF-16 anyway, so if that really
is a restriction of ICU then we're going to have to look elsewhere :-(

regards, tom lane

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