On 7/15/13 1:26 AM, Arulappan, Arul Shaji wrote: > Yes, the idea is that users will be able to declare columns of type > NCHAR or NVARCHAR which will use the pre-determined encoding type. If we > say that NCHAR is UTF-8 then the NCHAR column will be of UTF-8 encoding > irrespective of the database encoding. It will be up to us to restrict > what Unicode encodings we want to support for NCHAR/NVARCHAR columns.
I would try implementing this as an extension at first, with a new data type that is internally encoded differently. We have citext as precedent for successfully implementing text-like data types in user space. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
