Re: Pre-proposal: unicode normalized text

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>
Cc: Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Pre-proposal: unicode normalized text
Date: 2023-10-04 23:01:26
Message-ID: 573029acb7dd0956fb5334c3a3b71ffee16b4c0d.camel@j-davis.com
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On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 16:15 -0500, Nico Williams wrote:
> Better that than TEXT blobs w/ the encoding given by the `CREATE
> DATABASE` or `initdb` default!

From an engineering perspective, yes, per-column encodings would be
more flexible. But I still don't understand who exactly would use that,
and why.

It would take an awful lot of effort to implement and make the code
more complex, so we'd really need to see some serious demand for that.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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