| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jan Urbański <wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, Asif Naeem <asif(dot)naeem(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix mapping of PostgreSQL encodings to Python encodings. |
| Date: | 2012-07-06 15:53:55 |
| Message-ID: | 4FF70A13.7040207@enterprisedb.com |
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On 06.07.2012 18:01, Jan Urbański wrote:
> There's still trouble with EUC_TW and MULE_INTERNAL which don't have
> Python equivalents. EUC-TW has been discussed in
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2066 and rejected (see
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2066#msg113731).
>
> If you use any of these encodings, you *will* get into the recursion
> trouble described eariler, just as before the path you'd get into it
> with CP1252 as your encoding.
>
> What shall we do about those? Ignore them? Document that if you're sing
> one of these encodings then PL/Python with Python 2 will be crippled and
> with Python 3 just won't work?
We could convert to UTF-8, and use the PostgreSQL functions to convert
from UTF-8 to the server encoding. Double conversion might be slow, but
I think it would be better than failing.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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