Re: [HACKERS] MB patch

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have made patches that allow PostgreSQL to handle multi-byte
> characters. The patches makes most commands including "regexp" and
> "like" 8 bit, multi-byte aware. You have a choice of one of followings
> for coding schema at the compile time:
>
> 1. single byte 7 bit ASCII/8 bit characters(mostly used in Europ)
> 2. EUC (extend Unix Code) for Japanese, Chinese and Korean
> 3. UNICODE (UTF-8)
> 4. Mule internal code
>
> I only modified include/regexp, backend/regex and
> backend/utils/adt/like.c. So the patches would not affect other parts
> of PostgreSQL, I believe.
> Note that I changed regexp coming with PostgreSQL rather than
> borrowing GNU's regex to avoid license issues.
>
> Should I post the patches for 6.3b now or wait after v6.3?

Please hold these until post v6.3 ... only two weeks left for
release, and with the currently reproducable bug that has been found,
throwing in new code isn't a good idea :(

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org