Hope to support GB18030

General
1

May I ask why our ybdb does not support GB18030? What is the unsupported background? What modifications are needed to support it?

2

Hi! Are you asking for GB18030 to be the default encoding for a database? Note that this is not support by Postgres, which the YugabyteDB YSQL API is compatible with.

In Postgres:

postgres=# CREATE DATABASE test WITH encoding gb18030;
ERROR:  gb18030 is not a valid encoding name

In Yugabyte:

yugabyte=# CREATE DATABASE test WITH encoding gb18030;
ERROR:  gb18030 is not a valid encoding name
LINE 1: CREATE DATABASE test WITH encoding gb18030

Are you asking about the conversion functions or \encoding?

Thanks!

3

Hi.
I just want YugabyteDB to support GB18030 encoding, so that the data for read and write operations is compatible with GB18030 encoding format.
Thanks!

4

Ok. I was looking into this for you and found that enabling conversions is on our longer-term plan for full PG compatibility, but not planned in our short-term roadmap. But I will make your request known and will update this thread when the functionality is available.

5

@Jim_Knicely do we have a github issue for this?