Re: sql_ascii

Dennis Björklund writes:

> Why do we have SQL_ASCII?

It gives a simple default behavior for people who don't want to deal with
character set issues.

> I could understand it if we only could store 7-bit strings there. But
> SQL_ASCII lets you store 8-bit values. Should I understand SQL_ASCII
> simply as 8-bit strings of unknown charset?

Something like that. On the client side you could also understand it as
whatever the server is using, as long as that's single-byte. On the
server side it's 7-bit clean and 8-bit sometimes-clean. It's not pretty.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net