Re: ucs_wcwidth vintage

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ucs_wcwidth vintage
Date: 2017-11-03 17:31:55
Message-ID: 20171103173155.n3zyhp7itbsj6lav@alvherre.pgsql
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Thomas Munro wrote:
> Hi hackers,
>
> src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c contains a ~16 year old wcwidth
> implementation that originally arrived in commit df4cba68, but the
> upstream code[1] apparently continued evolving and there have been
> more Unicode revisions since.

I think we should update it to current upstream source, then, just like
we (are supposed to) do for any other piece of code we adopt.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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