Re: Deprecate custom encoding conversions

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: "tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
Cc: 'Heikki Linnakangas' <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Deprecate custom encoding conversions
Date: 2020-12-03 01:50:40
Message-ID: X8hEcANYNmVthMEq@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 12:54:56AM +0000, tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com wrote:
> I can't answer deeper questions because I'm not familiar with
> character sets, but I saw some Japanese web articles that use CREATE
> CONVERSION to handle external characters. So, I think we may as
> well retain it. (OTOH, I'm wondering how other DBMSs support
> external characters and what Postgres should implement it.)

Tsunakawa-san, could you post a link to this article, if possible? I
am curious about their problem and why they used CREATE CONVERSION as
a way to solve it. That's fine even if it is in Japanese.
--
Michael

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