> You not must change current names, you can add to pg_conv_tbl[] new lines
> with names synonym for already existing encoding...
> {LATIN1, "LATIN1", 0, latin12mic, mic2latin1, 0, 0},
> {LATIN1, "ISO-8859-1", 0, latin12mic, mic2latin1, 0, 0},
> And if you order this table by alphabet and in pg_char_to_encoding()
> you use Knuth's binary search intead current seq. scannig by for() every
> thing will faster and more nice. It's easy.
As you probably know, there is already a binary search algorithm coded
up for the date/time string lookups in utils/adt/datetime.c. Since that
lookup caches the last value (which could be done here too) most lookups
are immediate.
Are you proposing to make a change Karel, or just encouraging others? :)
- Thomas