Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 05:52:18PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > > pg_char_to_encoding() is already in libpq. Or am I missing something?
> >
> > It works with encoding table (pg_enc2name_tbl) and it's compiled
> > into backend and client too. It means number of encoding is not possible
> > change after compilation and you (user) can't add new encoding without
> > pg_enc2name_tbl[] change. I original thought we can add new encodings
> > on-the-fly in 7.3 :-) You're right.
> >
> > IMHO implement "User defined charsets(encodings)" will problem for
> > current libpq design.
>
> No, it's not a libpq problem, but more common "client/server" problem
> IMO. It's very hard to share dynamically created object (info)
> effectively between client and server.

IMHO dynamic object will keep server and client must ask for wanted
information to server.

Karel
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