Re: [PATCHES] encoding names

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz, barry(at)xythos(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] encoding names
Date: 2001-08-24 14:43:19
Message-ID: 200108241443.f7OEhJa29963@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > > BTW, what's wrong with "encoding"? I don't think, for example EUC-JP
> > > or utf-8, are character set names.
> >
> > Hmm, SQL talks of character sets, it has a CHARACTER_SETS view and such.
> > It's slightly incorrect, I agree.
> >
> > Maybe we should not touch getdatabaseencoding() right now, given that the
> > names we currently use are apparently almost correct anyway and
> > considering the pain it creates to alter them, and instead implement the
> > information schema views in the future?
>
> I thought schema stuffs would be introduced in 7.2 but apparently it
> would not happen...

I thought I could do it but ran out of time.

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