Re: Fixed length data types issue

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, andrew(at)supernews(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fixed length data types issue
Date: 2006-09-08 20:49:49
Message-ID: 20060908204949.GI5892@alvh.no-ip.org
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mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:42:09PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > But Martijn already clarified that ICU does not actually force you to
> > switch everything to UTF-16, so this is not an issue anyway.
>
> If my memory is correct, it does this by converting it to UTF-16 first.
> This is a performance disadvantage (although it may not be worse than
> PostgreSQL's current implementation :-) ).

Actually he muttered something about iterators, and not needing to
convert anything.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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