Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION

On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 12:58:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> What would be really cool is if we could somehow reuse the conversion
> modules provided by the C library and/or the iconv library. For example,
^^^^^^^

Very good point. Why use own conversion routines/tables if there is common
library for this?

The encoding API for PostgreSQL is really cool idea.

I unsure with only one argument for encoding function. What if I want
to use one generic function for all encodings (for example as API to
iconv)? I think better C interface is:

encode( TEXT data, NAME from, NAME to );

where from/to are encoding names. The other way is use some struct
that handle this information -- like ARGS in trigger functions.

Karel

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