Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 6.5 beta2 and beta3 problem

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> I had some discussions on the list a while ago (6 months?) about this
> topic, but never really got feedback from "locale-using" people that
> NATIONAL CHARACTER and collation sequences are an acceptable solution.

What feedback do you want? I am pretty sure two Olegs on this list are
ready to continue the discussion.

> istm that Postgres' extensibility would make this *very* easy to
> implement and extend, and that then everyone would get the same
> behavior from CHAR while being able to get the behaviors they need
> from a variety of other character sets.
>
> I do have an interest in implementing or helping with something, but
> since I don't have to live with the consequences of the results
> (coming from an ASCII country :) it seemed to be poor form to push it
> without feedback from others...
>
> - Thomas
>
> --
> Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
> South Pasadena, California

Oleg.
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