Re: Pre-proposal: unicode normalized text

From: Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Pre-proposal: unicode normalized text
Date: 2023-10-06 17:38:45
Message-ID: ZSBGJalw0ytQ63Sz@ubby21
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 01:33:06PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 3:15 PM Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com> wrote:
> > Text+encoding can be just like bytea with a one- or two-byte prefix
> > indicating what codeset+encoding it's in. That'd be how to encode
> > such text values on the wire, though on disk the column's type should
> > indicate the codeset+encoding, so no need to add a prefix to the value.
>
> Well, that would be making the encoding a per-value property, rather
> than a per-column property like collation as I proposed. I can't see

On-disk it would be just a property of the type, not part of the value.

Nico
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