Sorry for dealy. > On Tue, May 29, 2007 20:51, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > > 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. > > Would it make sense to define just the longest and shortest character > lengths for an encoding? Then for any conversion you'd have a safe > estimate of > > ceil(target_encoding.max_char_len / source_encoding.min_char_len) > > ...without going through every possible conversion.
This will not work since certain CONVERSION allows n char to m char conversion. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
