Re: Add ENCODING option to COPY

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
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 15:53:58
Message-ID: 19656.1297180438@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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"?

regards, tom lane

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