Re: Add ENCODING option to COPY

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add ENCODING option to COPY
Date: 2011-02-08 18:47:48
Message-ID: 1297190869.20104.1.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tis, 2011-02-08 at 10:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > On fre, 2011-02-04 at 10:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> The reason that we use quotes in CREATE DATABASE is that encoding
> >> names aren't assumed to be valid SQL identifiers. If this patch isn't
> >> following the CREATE DATABASE precedent, it's the patch that's wrong,
> >> not CREATE DATABASE.
>
> > Since encoding names are built-in and therefore well known, and the
> > names have been aligned with the SQL standard names, which are
> > identifiers, I don't think this argument is valid (anymore).
>
> What about "UTF-8"?

The canonical name of that is UTF8. But you can quote it if you want to
spell it differently.

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