On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> >>8.0 backends report the server_encoding value of the database via
> >>ParameterStatus during startup. I'd like to use this to detect SQL_ASCII
> >>databases and complain loudly.
> >
Sounds good to me as long as we can make existing "broken" setups still
work (at least as well as they do now). I was initially hesitant because
you seemed to want to force people to encode their data correctly
(requiring a dump/reload). If they just need to set a URL parameter
acknowledging that their setup isn't quite right, that's low impact.
Kris Jurka