Re: Changeset Extraction v7.0 (was logical changeset generation)

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Changeset Extraction v7.0 (was logical changeset generation)
Date: 2014-01-18 15:12:51
Message-ID: 52DA99F3.905@2ndquadrant.com
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On 01/18/2014 09:31 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Anybody who actually uses SHIFT_JIS as an operational encoding, rather
>> than as an input/output encoding, is into pain and suffering. Personally
>> I'd be quite happy to see it supported as client_encoding, but forbidden
>> as a server-side encoding. That's not the case right now - so since we
>> support it, we'd better guard against its quirks.
>
> I think that *is* the case right now. pg_wchar.h sayeth:
>
> /* followings are for client encoding only */
> PG_SJIS, /* Shift JIS
> (Winindows-932) */
> PG_BIG5, /* Big5 (Windows-950) */
> PG_GBK, /* GBK (Windows-936) */

Perfect - that makes ASCII-only just fine, IMO.

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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