Re: [HACKERS] Locale implementation questions

2006-06-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Thead added to TODO.detail. --- Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > 3. Compiled locale files are large. One UTF-8 locale datafile can > > exceed a megabyte. Do we want the option of disabling it for small > > systems? > > To avoid the

Re: [HACKERS] Locale implementation questions

2005-09-04 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it's sheer madness to try to reproduce large swaths of the OS > inside Postgres because you're unhappy with the quality of the OS > implementation. You should be asking yourself why OS vendors have such > a hard time getting this stuff right In the

Re: [HACKERS] Locale implementation questions

2005-09-04 Thread Greg Stark
Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To be honest, I don't understand why we have to rely on (often broken) > system locales. I don't think building our own locale data is too > hard, and once we make up it, the maintenace cost will be very small > since it should not be changed regularly.

Re: [HACKERS] Locale implementation questions

2005-09-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:25:36PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > 3. Compiled locale files are large. One UTF-8 locale datafile can > > exceed a megabyte. Do we want the option of disabling it for small > > systems? > > To avoid the problem, you could dynmically load the compiled > tables. The cha

Re: [HACKERS] Locale implementation questions

2005-09-04 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> 3. Compiled locale files are large. One UTF-8 locale datafile can > exceed a megabyte. Do we want the option of disabling it for small > systems? To avoid the problem, you could dynmically load the compiled tables. The charset conversion tables are handled similar way. Also I think it's importa