Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Oh, sorry. So there is no ordering in Unicode?
That statement is meaningless. Unicode is a character set, not a
collation order.
> No wonder some
> languages can't use Unicode effectively.
That has nothing to do with it.
> o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which PostgreSQL supports
> but the operating system does not (already disallowed by
> pginstaller)
I think the warning that initdb shouts out is already enough for this.
I don't think we want to disallow this for people who know what they
are doing.
> I assume C just compares the bytes, meaning equality comparisons are
> fine, but greater/less than is consistent but meaningless.
That statement is independent of whether you use Unicode or something
else.
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Peter Eisentraut
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