Re: [HACKERS] Multibyte in autoconf

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Multibyte in autoconf
Date: 1999-12-08 08:33:36
Message-ID: 26011.944642016@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
>> If no --pgencoding, you get default (non-multibyte) coding even
>> if you compiled with --enable-mb.

> Not agreed. I think it would be better to give an error if no default
> encoding is not sepecified if configured with --enable-mb.

OK, I could live with that too. I think Peter's main point is that
there's no good reason to select a particular encoding at configure
time, even just as a "default". It'll be less confusing if initdb time
is the *only* time where you specify the particular MULTIBYTE encoding
you want.

regards, tom lane

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