| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, david(at)kineticode(dot)com, itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Support UTF-8 files with BOM in COPY FROM |
| Date: | 2011-09-26 17:15:29 |
| Message-ID: | 9739.1317057329@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>> Suppose a user uses brain-dead editor, which does not accept UTF-8
>> without BOM.
> Maybe this needs to be an optional behavior, controlled by some COPY option.
I'm not excited about emitting non-standards-conformant output on the
strength of a hypothetical argument about users and editors that may or
may not exist. I believe that there's a use-case for reading BOMs, but
I have seen no field complaints demonstrating that we need to write
them. Even if we had a couple, "use a less brain dead editor" might be
the best response. We cannot promise to be compatible with arbitrarily
broken software.
regards, tom lane
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