Re: a "catch all" type ... such a thing?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: a "catch all" type ... such a thing?
Date: 2005-09-10 18:43:31
Message-ID: 200509102043.31876.peter_e@gmx.net
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Are there any data types that can hold pretty much any type of
> character? UTF-16 isn't supported (or its missing from teh docs), and
> UTF-8 doesn't appear to have a big enough range ...

UTF-8 has exactly the same "range" as UTF-16. In any case, the UTF-8
encoding in PostgreSQL is probably your best choice, unless you want to
dig into the weirdness that is MULE_INTERNAL.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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