Re: What is the maximum encoding-conversion growth rate, anyway?

> > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:23:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> writes:
> > > > I'm afraid we have to mke it larger, rather than smaller for 8.3. For
> > > > example 0x82f5 in SHIFT_JIS_2004 (new in 8.3) becomes *pair* of 3
> > > > bytes UTF_8 (0x00e3818b and 0x00e3829a). See
> > > > util/mb/Unicode/shift_jis_2004_to_utf8_combined.map for more details.
> > > 
> > > > So the worst case is now 6, rather than 3.
> > > 
> > > Yipes.
> > 
> > Isn't MAX_CONVERSION_GROWTH a multiplier?  Doesn't 2 bytes becoming
> > 2 * 3 bytes represent a growth of 3, not 6?  Or does that 2-byte
> > SHIFT_JIS_2004 sequence have a 1-byte sequence in another supported
> > encoding?  Or am I missing something?
> 
> Oops. You are right. The MAX_CONVERSION_GROWTH should be 3 (=
> (2*3)/2), rather than 6 for the case.
> 
> So it seems we could safely make MAX_CONVERSION_GROWTH down to 3 for
> the moment.

Thinking more, it striked me that users can define arbitarily growing
rate by using CFREATE CONVERSION. So it seems we need functionality to
define the growing rate anyway.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan