Re: psql completion for ids in multibyte string

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql completion for ids in multibyte string
Date: 2016-03-04 17:02:57
Message-ID: 20160304170257.GA706683@alvherre.pgsql
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
> <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> > Hello, thank you for the comments.
> >> I think we should leave string_length as it is and use a new variable
> >> for character-based length, as in the attached.
> >
> > Basically agreed but I like byte_length for the previous
> > string_length and string_length for string_length_cars. Also
> > text_length is renamed in the attached patch.
>
> I committed this and back-patched this but (1) I avoided changing the
> other functions for now and (2) I gave both the byte length and the
> character length new names to avoid confusion.

These tweaks appear to have been universally disliked by buildfarm
members.

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