Re: [NOVICE] encoding problems

From: Cliff Nieuwenhuis <cliff(at)nieusite(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] encoding problems
Date: 2008-05-10 14:19:52
Message-ID: 20080510091952.0a363dde@edmund.nieunet
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On Fri, 9 May 2008 08:38:01 -0400
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> Bruce Momjian escribió:
> > Guillaume Smet wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > As I mentioned it before, is there any chance for this fix to be
> > > backported to 8.3 branch? IMHO it's a usability regression.
> >
> > No, we don't change behaviors in back branches unless we get lots of
> > complaints, and we haven't in this case.
>
> complaints++
>

I suppose this a "Me Too" post, but Bruce Momjian invites it. You
folks take this to a level way beyond me, but I can tell you that the
idea of using spaces instead of the terminal hard tabs would solve my
problem -- I'd prefer _any_ choice of whitespace over seeing "\x09" on
the terminal.

--

Cliff Nieuwenhuis

"As long as the error messages keep changing we're making progress."

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