On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:16 AM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 3 August 2016 at 22:54, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht@8kdata.com> wrote: >> What would it take to support it? Isn't the varlena header propagated >> everywhere, which could help infer the real length of the string? Any >> pointers or suggestions would be welcome. > > > One of the bigger pain points is that our interaction with C library > collation routines for sorting uses NULL-terminated C strings. strcoll, > strxfrm, etc.
That particular bit of the problem would go away if this ever happened: