Re: Multiple character encodings within a single database/table?

From: Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Multiple character encodings within a single database/table?
Date: 2009-04-10 16:31:55
Message-ID: FA5C1C16-84BD-4383-90F8-B4DEDC04A831@blighty.com
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On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Dann Corbit wrote:

> If I have the C locale, can I have multiple character encodings
> within:
> 1. A single database?
> 2. A single table?

No.

>
> More specifically, I would like to be able to have Unicode columns and
> ASCII text columns within the same table. Is this possible? If so,
> how
> do I achieve it?

Any valid ascii string is also a valid utf8 string. You can probably
just use utf8 for everything.

Cheers,
Steve

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