Re: New database: SQL_ASCII vs UTF-8 trade-offs

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: ow <oneway_111(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Subject: Re: New database: SQL_ASCII vs UTF-8 trade-offs
Date: 2006-03-07 14:38:11
Message-ID: 200603071538.12028.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 15:08 schrieb ow:
> Are there any negative effects related to the selection of UTF-8 over
> SQL_ASCII (e.g. size of the database, sort/like/group issues, etc)?

If you're only planning to store ASCII data, choosing UTF-8 will not cause any
additional problems. But obviously you're more future-proof that way.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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