UTF8 should be accepted as UNICODE

From: Ivo Danihelka <ivo(dot)danihelka(at)itonis(dot)tv>
To: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: UTF8 should be accepted as UNICODE
Date: 2008-02-22 14:08:14
Message-ID: 1203689294.4960.56.camel@localhost
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The Postgresql JDBC driver does not accept this statement:
SET client_encoding = 'UTF8';

It fails with:
"org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: The server's client_encoding
parameter was changed to UTF8. The JDBC driver requires client_encoding
to be UNICODE for correct operation."

I consider that to be a bug. The UNICODE is an alias for UTF8.

Starting from 8.2, the pg_dump exports 'UTF8'
even when --encoding=UNICODE is used.
See:
$ pg_dump --version
pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 8.2.6
$ pg_dump --encoding=UNICODE template1 | grep client_encoding
SET client_encoding = 'UTF8';

The check for value.equals('UNICODE') is inside
org/postgresql/core/v3/QueryExecutorImpl.java

Thanks for the driver,
--
Ivo Danihelka

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