Re: [HACKERS] 6.5 Features list

From: Oleg Broytmann <phd(at)sun(dot)med(dot)ru>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 6.5 Features list
Date: 1999-03-19 14:18:10
Message-ID: Pine.SOL2.3.96.SK.990319171412.3204A-100000@sun.med.ru
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Hi!

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> BTW, I'm going to add a new Cyrillic support to the multi-byte support
> next week (around 3/23-3/35) if this is not too late. Yes, I know we
> already have the rcode support. But it seems to have some difficulties
> with on-the-fly encoding conversion. (Oleg, is this explanation
> correct?)

RECODE has no difficulties - it just does not allow to choose what
encoding a client want to get. RECODE chooses client encoding by client IP
address, what is very unflexible.

> Anyway, the new Cyrillic support will not kill existing rcode support.
> In another word, users can choose whatever Cyrillic support they like.

I think new cyrillic support makes RECODE obsolete. Somewhere in the
future we should remove RECODE, I think.

> ---
> Tatsuo Ishii

Oleg.
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