Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.

From: "MauMau" <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "Tatsuo Ishii" <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <maksymb(at)fast(dot)au(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.
Date: 2013-09-20 23:58:15
Message-ID: 25023FC76F8940619C3780B99E733D24@maumau
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From: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
> As far as I can tell the whole reason for introducing NCHAR is to
> support SHIFT-JIS, there hasn't been call for any other encodings, that
> I can remember anyway.

Could you elaborate on this, giving some info sources?

> So rather than this whole NCHAR thing, why not just add a type
> "sjistext", and a few type casts and call it a day...

The main reason for supporting NCHAR types is to ease migration from other
DBMSs, not requiring DDL changes. So sjistext does not match that purpose.

Regards
MauMau

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