From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> |
Cc: | robinson(at)netrinsics(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Re: Big 7.1 open items |
Date: | 2000-06-15 13:53:14 |
Message-ID: | 200006151353.JAA05101@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Hum.. I thought Michael Robinson is the one who is against the idea of
> rejecting "illegal" character sequences before they are put in the DB.
> I like the idea but I haven't time to do that (However I'm not sure I
> would like to do it for EUC-CN, since he dislikes the codes I write).
>
> Bruce, I would like to see followings in the TODO. I also would like
> to hear from Thomas and Peter or whoever being interested in
> implementing NATIONAL CHARACTER stuffs if they are reasonable.
>
> o Don't accept character sequences those are not valid as their charset
> (signaling ERROR seems appropriate IMHO)
>
> o Make PostgreSQL more multibyte aware (for example, TRIM function and
> NAME data type)
>
> o Regard n of CHAR(n)/VARCHAR(n) as the number of letters, rather than
> the number of bytes
Added to TODO:
* Reject character sequences those are not valid in their charset
* Make functions more multi-byte aware, i.e. trim()
* Make n of CHAR(n)/VARCHAR(n) the number of letters, not bytes
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