Re: Locale, Collation, ICU patch

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Locale, Collation, ICU patch
Date: 2008-04-03 19:23:59
Message-ID: 47F52ECF.4050304@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> The other issue that'd have to be resolved is the problem of system log
> output. I think we'd wish that log messages are written in a uniform
> encoding (CSV output in particular is going to have a hard time
> otherwise) but what do you do when you need to report something that
> includes a character not present in that encoding?
>
>
>

I think the only problem with CSV logs would be in trying to read them
back into Postgres (which I agree is the main point of having them).

We need to be more aggressive about dealing with these problems, or else
how will we ever get to per-column charsets/collations?

cheers

andrew

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