Re: Implementing full UTF-8 support (aka supporting 0x00)

On 03/08/16 17:47, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht(at)8kdata(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> What would it take to support it?
> Would it be of any value to support "Modified UTF-8"?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Modified_UTF-8
>

That's nice, but I don't think so.

The problem is that you cannot predict how people would send you
data, like when importing from other databases. I guess it may work if
Postgres would implement such UTF-8 variant and also the drivers, but
that would still require an encoding conversion (i.e., parsing every
string) to change the 0x00, which seems like a serious performance hit.

It could be worse than nothing, though!

Thanks,

Álvaro

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Álvaro Hernández Tortosa

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