Re: get rid of SQL_ASCII?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: get rid of SQL_ASCII?
Date: 2013-09-05 16:53:18
Message-ID: 5228B6FE.9010308@commandprompt.com
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On 09/05/2013 09:42 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> Peter,
>
>> Other ideas? Are there legitimate uses for SQL_ASCII?
>
> Migrating from MySQL. We've had some projects where we couldn't fix
> MySQL's non-enforcement text garbage, and had to use SQL_ASCII on the
> receiving side. If it hadn't been available, the user would have given
> up on Postgres.

iconv?

>

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