Re: SCRAM authentication, take three

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> On 02/09/2017 09:33 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Now regarding the shape of the implementation for SCRAM, we need one
>> thing: a set of routines in src/common/ to build decompositions for a
>> given UTF-8 string with conversion UTF8 string <=> pg_wchar array, the
>> decomposition and the reordering. The extension attached roughly
>> implements that. What we can actually do as well is have in contrib/ a
>> module that does NFK[C|D] using the base APIs in src/common/. Using
>> arrays of pg_wchar (integers) to manipulate the characters, we can
>> validate and have a set of regression tests that do *not* have to
>> print non-ASCII characters.
>
>
> A contrib module or built-in extra functions to deal with Unicode characters
> might be handy for a lot of things. But I'd leave that out for now, to keep
> this patch minimal.

No problem from me. I'll get something for SASLprep in the shape of
something like the above. It should not take me long.
--
Michael