On Tuesday 14 April 2009 18:49:45 Greg Stark wrote: > What's really at issue is "what is a string?". That is, it a sequence > of characters or a sequence of code points.
I think a sequence of codepoints would be about as silly a definition as the antiquated notion of a string as a sequence of bytes. > If it's the former then we > would also have to prohibit certain strings such as U&'\0301' > entirely. And we have to make substr() pick out the right number of > code points, etc. Sure enough. That all goes along with what the original poster was saying. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
