| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Salem Berhanu" <salemb4(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] postgres & server encodings |
| Date: | 2005-08-09 18:38:43 |
| Message-ID: | 877jevc5vw.fsf@stark.xeocode.com |
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> "Salem Berhanu" <salemb4(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> > What exactly is the SQL_ASCII encoding in postgres?
>
> SQL_ASCII isn't so much an encoding as the declaration that you don't
> care about encodings.
It's too late to consider renaming this SQL_RAW or something like that is it?
It is a huge source of confusion.
Perhaps have a separate "ascii" encoding that checks and complains if any
non-ascii characters are present.
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greg
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