From: | Peter T Mount <psqlhack(at)maidast(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
Cc: | t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org, t-ishii(at)srapc451(dot)sra(dot)co(dot)jp |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] MB patch |
Date: | 1998-02-13 19:54:00 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.3.95.980213194721.17447A-100000@maidast |
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On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp wrote:
>
> > 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 :(
Another reason is that the UTF code may be handy for the JDBC driver -
occasionally I get questions about how Unicode is handled. Currently I'm
saying "It isn't yet".
However, this is something I wont be able to get round to until 6.3 is
out.
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