Re: [HACKERS] UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.

2013-09-03 Thread Boguk, Maksym
>> 1)Addition of new string data types NATIONAL CHARACTER and NATIONAL >> CHARACTER VARIABLE. >> These types differ from the char/varchar data types in one important >> respect: NATIONAL string types are always have UTF8 encoding even >> (independent from used database encoding). >I don't like

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal - Support for National Characters functionality

2013-07-31 Thread Boguk, Maksym
Hi everyone, I will try answer on all questions related to proposed National Characters support. >> 2)Provide support for the new GUC nchar_collation to provide the >> database with information about the default collation that needs to be >> used for the new data types. >A GUC seems like compl