Re: Unicode combining characters

> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > In the meantime, we still have the question of whether to enable
> > multibyte in the default configuration.
>
> This would make more sense if all of multibyte, locale, and NLS became
> defaults in one release. I haven't quite sold people in the second item
> yet, although I have a design how to do that (see below). And the third,
> well who knows...
>
> Perhaps we could make it a release goal for 7.3 to
>
> * Optimize i18n stuff to have a minimal performance penalty when it's not
> used. (locale=C etc.)
>
> * Make i18n stuff sufficiently well-behaved to make it the default.
> (Especially, add initdb options and GUC parameters to set the locale.
> Don't rely on environment variables -- too complicated.)
>
> Meanwhile, quadratic performance penalties (or so it seems) for LIKE
> expressions aren't exactly a "minor" problem.
>

Added to TODO:

* Optimize locale to have minimal performance impact when not used
(Peter E)
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