Add country names in full to database, instead of two letter ISO codes (+i18n)

[spwoodcock]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• The data source we use has two letter ISO codes for countries.
• It would be more user friendly if our query output the actual country long name.

So names like Kathmandu,NP would become Kathmandu,Nepal.

Do you think this is a good idea @emirfabio ?

Describe the solution you'd like

• Option 1: insert the names already converted (may require manipulating source data, as we use a binary COPY.
• Option 2: convert to the long name on query, using a dict mapping.

Additional context

Mapping:

countries = [
    ("AF", "Afghanistan"),
    ("AX", "\xc5land Islands"),
    ("AL", "Albania"),
    ("DZ", "Algeria"),
    ("AS", "American Samoa"),
    ("AD", "Andorra"),
    ("AO", "Angola"),
    ("AI", "Anguilla"),
    ("AQ", "Antarctica"),
    ("AG", "Antigua and Barbuda"),
    ("AR", "Argentina"),
    ("AM", "Armenia"),
    ("AW", "Aruba"),
    ("AU", "Australia"),
    ("AT", "Austria"),
    ("AZ", "Azerbaijan"),
    ("BS", "Bahamas"),
    ("BH", "Bahrain"),
    ("BD", "Bangladesh"),
    ("BB", "Barbados"),
    ("BY", "Belarus"),
    ("BE", "Belgium"),
    ("BZ", "Belize"),
    ("BJ", "Benin"),
    ("BM", "Bermuda"),
    ("BT", "Bhutan"),
    ("BO", "Bolivia, Plurinational State of"),
    ("BQ", "Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba"),
    ("BA", "Bosnia and Herzegovina"),
    ("BW", "Botswana"),
    ("BV", "Bouvet Island"),
    ("BR", "Brazil"),
    ("IO", "British Indian Ocean Territory"),
    ("BN", "Brunei Darussalam"),
    ("BG", "Bulgaria"),
    ("BF", "Burkina Faso"),
    ("BI", "Burundi"),
    ("KH", "Cambodia"),
    ("CM", "Cameroon"),
    ("CA", "Canada"),
    ("CV", "Cape Verde"),
    ("KY", "Cayman Islands"),
    ("CF", "Central African Republic"),
    ("TD", "Chad"),
    ("CL", "Chile"),
    ("CN", "China"),
    ("CX", "Christmas Island"),
    ("CC", "Cocos (Keeling Islands)"),
    ("CO", "Colombia"),
    ("KM", "Comoros"),
    ("CG", "Congo"),
    ("CD", "Congo, The Democratic Republic of the"),
    ("CK", "Cook Islands"),
    ("CR", "Costa Rica"),
    ("CI", "C\xf4te D'ivoire"),
    ("HR", "Croatia"),
    ("CU", "Cuba"),
    ("CW", "Cura\xe7ao"),
    ("CY", "Cyprus"),
    ("CZ", "Czech Republic"),
    ("DK", "Denmark"),
    ("DJ", "Djibouti"),
    ("DM", "Dominica"),
    ("DO", "Dominican Republic"),
    ("EC", "Ecuador"),
    ("EG", "Egypt"),
    ("SV", "El Salvador"),
    ("GQ", "Equatorial Guinea"),
    ("ER", "Eritrea"),
    ("EE", "Estonia"),
    ("ET", "Ethiopia"),
    ("FK", "Falkland Islands (Malvinas)"),
    ("FO", "Faroe Islands"),
    ("FJ", "Fiji"),
    ("FI", "Finland"),
    ("FR", "France"),
    ("GF", "French Guiana"),
    ("PF", "French Polynesia"),
    ("TF", "French Southern Territories"),
    ("GA", "Gabon"),
    ("GM", "Gambia"),
    ("GE", "Georgia"),
    ("DE", "Germany"),
    ("GH", "Ghana"),
    ("GI", "Gibraltar"),
    ("GR", "Greece"),
    ("GL", "Greenland"),
    ("GD", "Grenada"),
    ("GP", "Guadeloupe"),
    ("GU", "Guam"),
    ("GT", "Guatemala"),
    ("GG", "Guernsey"),
    ("GN", "Guinea"),
    ("GW", "Guinea-bissau"),
    ("GY", "Guyana"),
    ("HT", "Haiti"),
    ("HM", "Heard Island and McDonald Islands"),
    ("VA", "Holy See (Vatican City State)"),
    ("HN", "Honduras"),
    ("HK", "Hong Kong"),
    ("HU", "Hungary"),
    ("IS", "Iceland"),
    ("IN", "India"),
    ("ID", "Indonesia"),
    ("IR", "Iran, Islamic Republic of"),
    ("IQ", "Iraq"),
    ("IE", "Ireland"),
    ("IM", "Isle of Man"),
    ("IL", "Israel"),
    ("IT", "Italy"),
    ("JM", "Jamaica"),
    ("JP", "Japan"),
    ("JE", "Jersey"),
    ("JO", "Jordan"),
    ("KZ", "Kazakhstan"),
    ("KE", "Kenya"),
    ("KI", "Kiribati"),
    ("KP", "Korea, Democratic People's Republic of"),
    ("KR", "Korea, Republic of"),
    ("KW", "Kuwait"),
    ("KG", "Kyrgyzstan"),
    ("LA", "Lao People's Democratic Republic"),
    ("LV", "Latvia"),
    ("LB", "Lebanon"),
    ("LS", "Lesotho"),
    ("LR", "Liberia"),
    ("LY", "Libya"),
    ("LI", "Liechtenstein"),
    ("LT", "Lithuania"),
    ("LU", "Luxembourg"),
    ("MO", "Macao"),
    ("MK", "Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of"),
    ("MG", "Madagascar"),
    ("MW", "Malawi"),
    ("MY", "Malaysia"),
    ("MV", "Maldives"),
    ("ML", "Mali"),
    ("MT", "Malta"),
    ("MH", "Marshall Islands"),
    ("MQ", "Martinique"),
    ("MR", "Mauritania"),
    ("MU", "Mauritius"),
    ("YT", "Mayotte"),
    ("MX", "Mexico"),
    ("FM", "Micronesia, Federated States of"),
    ("MD", "Moldova, Republic of"),
    ("MC", "Monaco"),
    ("MN", "Mongolia"),
    ("ME", "Montenegro"),
    ("MS", "Montserrat"),
    ("MA", "Morocco"),
    ("MZ", "Mozambique"),
    ("MM", "Myanmar"),
    ("NA", "Namibia"),
    ("NR", "Nauru"),
    ("NP", "Nepal"),
    ("NL", "Netherlands"),
    ("NC", "New Caledonia"),
    ("NZ", "New Zealand"),
    ("NI", "Nicaragua"),
    ("NE", "Niger"),
    ("NG", "Nigeria"),
    ("NU", "Niue"),
    ("NF", "Norfolk Island"),
    ("MP", "Northern Mariana Islands"),
    ("NO", "Norway"),
    ("OM", "Oman"),
    ("PK", "Pakistan"),
    ("PW", "Palau"),
    ("PS", "Palestinian Territory, Occupied"),
    ("PA", "Panama"),
    ("PG", "Papua New Guinea"),
    ("PY", "Paraguay"),
    ("PE", "Peru"),
    ("PH", "Philippines"),
    ("PN", "Pitcairn"),
    ("PL", "Poland"),
    ("PT", "Portugal"),
    ("PR", "Puerto Rico"),
    ("QA", "Qatar"),
    ("RE", "R\xe9union"),
    ("RO", "Romania"),
    ("RU", "Russian Federation"),
    ("RW", "Rwanda"),
    ("BL", "Saint Barth\xe9lemy"),
    ("SH", "Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan Da Cunha"),
    ("KN", "Saint Kitts and Nevis"),
    ("LC", "Saint Lucia"),
    ("MF", "Saint Martin (French Part)"),
    ("PM", "Saint Pierre and Miquelon"),
    ("VC", "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines"),
    ("WS", "Samoa"),
    ("SM", "San Marino"),
    ("ST", "Sao Tome and Principe"),
    ("SA", "Saudi Arabia"),
    ("SN", "Senegal"),
    ("RS", "Serbia"),
    ("SC", "Seychelles"),
    ("SL", "Sierra Leone"),
    ("SG", "Singapore"),
    ("SX", "Sint Maarten (Dutch Part)"),
    ("SK", "Slovakia"),
    ("SI", "Slovenia"),
    ("SB", "Solomon Islands"),
    ("SO", "Somalia"),
    ("ZA", "South Africa"),
    ("GS", "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands"),
    ("SS", "South Sudan"),
    ("ES", "Spain"),
    ("LK", "Sri Lanka"),
    ("SD", "Sudan"),
    ("SR", "Suriname"),
    ("SJ", "Svalbard and Jan Mayen"),
    ("SZ", "Swaziland"),
    ("SE", "Sweden"),
    ("CH", "Switzerland"),
    ("SY", "Syrian Arab Republic"),
    ("TW", "Taiwan, Province of China"),
    ("TJ", "Tajikistan"),
    ("TZ", "Tanzania, United Republic of"),
    ("TH", "Thailand"),
    ("TL", "Timor-leste"),
    ("TG", "Togo"),
    ("TK", "Tokelau"),
    ("TO", "Tonga"),
    ("TT", "Trinidad and Tobago"),
    ("TN", "Tunisia"),
    ("TR", "Turkey"),
    ("TM", "Turkmenistan"),
    ("TC", "Turks and Caicos Islands"),
    ("TV", "Tuvalu"),
    ("UG", "Uganda"),
    ("UA", "Ukraine"),
    ("AE", "United Arab Emirates"),
    ("GB", "United Kingdom"),
    ("US", "United States"),
    ("UM", "United States Minor Outlying Islands"),
    ("UY", "Uruguay"),
    ("UZ", "Uzbekistan"),
    ("VU", "Vanuatu"),
    ("VE", "Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of"),
    ("VN", "Viet Nam"),
    ("VG", "Virgin Islands, British"),
    ("VI", "Virgin Islands, U.S."),
    ("WF", "Wallis and Futuna"),
    ("EH", "Western Sahara"),
    ("YE", "Yemen"),
    ("ZM", "Zambia"),
    ("ZW", "Zimbabwe"),
]

[emirfabio]

yesss, definitely a good idea.
I would keep using the db for consistency.

We could add another table for the country code to country name mapping, this would be nice for i18n purposes, what do you think @spwoodcock ?
Or directly add the column to the main table if i18n is not a necessity

[spwoodcock]

yesss, definitely a good idea. I would keep using the db for consistency.

We could add another table for the country code to country name mapping, this would be nice for i18n purposes, what do you think @spwoodcock ? Or directly add the column to the main table if i18n is not a necessity

Love this idea to deal with i18n too!

It's not strictly essential, but I'm sure it would be a very nice / unique point of this lib 😄