Re: charset/collation in values

From: Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: charset/collation in values
Date: 2004-11-02 12:15:45
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0411021308080.2015-100000@zigo.dhs.org
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On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> A collation implies a character set, so you only need to store one piece of
> information anyway.

No, a collation implies a character repertoire like UCS (unicode), it can
apply to several character sets like UTF8 and UTF16.

One can enumerate all combinations if one want to, as suggested
previously.

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/Dennis Björklund

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