On Tuesday 14 April 2009 19:26:41 Tom Lane wrote: > Another question is "what is the purpose of a database"? To me it would > be quite the wrong thing for the DB to not store what is presented, as > long as it's considered legal. Normalization of legal variant forms > seems pretty questionable. So I'm with the camp that says this is the > application's responsibility.
I think automatically normalizing or otherwise fiddling with Unicode strings with combining characters is not acceptable. But the point is that we should process equivalent forms in a consistent way. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
