| From: | Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: get rid of SQL_ASCII? |
| Date: | 2013-09-06 15:19:15 |
| Message-ID: | 1378480755.15946.YahooMailNeo@web162906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> There's a large undercurrent of "I say it's bad for you" in
>> this thread, with frankly nothing to back it up. If we try to
>> be as nanny-ish as you're suggesting here, we'll just annoy
>> users.
>
> +1.
+1
I can definitely see a place for an ASCII7 encoding which would
reject anything with the high bit set; but there is a clear place
for the current SQL_ASCII, too. Eliminating it would be much pain
for no discernible gain.
--
Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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