Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2005 04:42 schrieb Oliver Jowett:
>
>>I suppose that we can't change the semantics of SQL_ASCII without
>>backwards compatibility problems. I wonder if introducing a new encoding
>>that only allows 7-bit ascii, and making that the default, is the way to
>>go.
>
>
> In 8.0, the de facto default encoding is no longer SQL_ASCII, so that problem
> should go away over time.
My 8.0.0 (what I happen to have on hand) initdb creates a SQL_ASCII
cluster by default unless I specify -E.
> Certainly, making 7-bit ASCII the default encoding
> is not an option.
Why is that?
-O