Re: [HACKERS] Postgres 6.5 beta2 and beta3 problem

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> istm that the Russian and Japanese contingents could represent the
> needs of multibyte and locale concerns very well. So, we should ask
> ourselves some questions to see if we can make *progress* in evolving
> our text handling, rather than just staying the same forever.

Ok, we are here.
And what a pros and cons for NCHAR?

> SQL92 suggests some specific text handling features to help with
> non-ascii applications. "national character" is, afaik, the feature

What the help?

> which would hold an installation-wide local text type. "collations"
> would allow other text types in the same installation, but SQL92 is a
> bit fuzzier about how to make them work.
>
> Would these mechanisms work for people? Or are they so fundamentally
> flawed or non-standard (it is from a standard, but I'm not sure who
> implements it)?
>
> - Thomas
>
> --
> Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
> South Pasadena, California

Oleg.
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