Re: [PATCH] Expand character set for ltree labels

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Garen Torikian <gjtorikian(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Expand character set for ltree labels
Date: 2023-01-06 15:59:14
Message-ID: 17991f98-efc4-0458-e3fd-50610bd501c1@dunslane.net
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On 2022-10-05 We 18:05, Garen Torikian wrote:
> After digging into it, you are completely correct. I had to do a bit
> more reading to understand the relationships between UTF-8 and wchar,
> but ultimately the existing locale support works for my use case.
>
> Therefore I have updated the patch with three much smaller changes:
>
> * Support for `-` in addition to `_`
> * Expanding the limit to 512 chars (from the existing 256); again it's
> not uncommon for non-English strings to be much longer
> * Fixed the documentation to expand on what the ltree label's
> relationship to the DB locale is
>

Regardless of the punycode issue, allowing hyphens in ltree labels seems
quite reasonable. I haven't reviewed the patch yet, but if it's OK I
intend to commit it.

cheers

andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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