Alvaro Herrera writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I just spent a bit of time considering what we might do to fix this.
>> The idea mentioned in the above thread was to switch over to using
>> wchar_t in the regex code, but that seems to have a number of problems.
>> One showstopper is that on some platf
Tom Lane wrote:
> I just spent a bit of time considering what we might do to fix this.
> The idea mentioned in the above thread was to switch over to using
> wchar_t in the regex code, but that seems to have a number of problems.
> One showstopper is that on some platforms wchar_t is only 16 bits
I wrote:
> I therefore propose the following idea: if the database encoding is
> UTF8, allow the regc_locale.c functions to call the
> functions, assuming that wchar_t and pg_wchar_t share the same
> representation. On platforms where wchar_t is only 16 bits, we can do
> this up to U+ and be
