| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, John Hansen <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Subject: | Re: Three-byte Unicode characters |
| Date: | 2005-04-10 16:16:26 |
| Message-ID: | 28616.1113149786@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> So, we do have a bug, and we are probably going to need to fix it in
>> 8.0.X.
> This has never worked in all the years we have had Unicode
> functionality, so I don't understand why we have to rush to fix it now.
> Certainly, it ought to be fixed, but not in a minor release.
The reasons why we rejected applying John's patch at the tail end
of the 8.0 cycle are still valid: it is a new feature and there
is nontrivial risk of introducing new bugs (more specifically,
exposing bits of the system that aren't prepared for more-than-16-bit
characters).
I'm fine with changing it in the 8.1 cycle, but I think a back-patch
would be folly.
regards, tom lane
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