Re: [PATCHES] encoding names

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
Cc: zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz, pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, barry(at)xythos(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] encoding names
Date: 2001-08-24 04:21:03
Message-ID: 20010824132103U.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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> > BTW, what's wrong with "encoding"? I don't think, for example EUC-JP
> > or utf-8, are character set names.
>
> Hmm, SQL talks of character sets, it has a CHARACTER_SETS view and such.
> It's slightly incorrect, I agree.
>
> Maybe we should not touch getdatabaseencoding() right now, given that the
> names we currently use are apparently almost correct anyway and
> considering the pain it creates to alter them, and instead implement the
> information schema views in the future?

I thought schema stuffs would be introduced in 7.2 but apparently it
would not happen...
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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