Re: UTF8 problem

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Daniel Verite <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org>
Cc: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>, Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>, Alban Hertroys <alban(at)magproductions(dot)nl>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UTF8 problem
Date: 2006-06-08 20:54:51
Message-ID: 44888E9B.1050801@zeut.net
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Daniel Verite wrote:
> IMHO they fail to draw the proper conclusion, which is that
> either the raw mail should be stored as either as a binary object,
> or as a text field in a database with SQL_ASCII encoding, in both
> cases providing the level of transparency that they need by design,
> their purpose being to store and retrieve the mail, not to check its
> its contents.

They have talked about changing the messageblks to binary instead of
text. They said that one of their main objections is that bytea data is
not compressed. I'm not sure that's true, but I don't see anything in
the docs about it. I think they would move to bytea if it does compress.

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