Re: How to insert Ecoded values into postrgresql

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, venkat <ven(dot)tammineni(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to insert Ecoded values into postrgresql
Date: 2010-04-20 15:07:54
Message-ID: 7568.1271776074@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Given the lack of field complaints, I think changing this would be a
>> pretty terrible idea; much more likely to break things than fix them.
>> It's not like that RFC has huge recognition as The Standard.

> Should we document we support the standard?

I'm inclined to think not: there's no evidence that anyone cares about
compliance to that RFC, and anyway we *don't* support the standard
exactly, per Merlin's report. We'd have to say something like "we
support the standard except for line-endings", which is only going to
muddy the waters.

regards, tom lane

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