Re: Best practice for: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8"

From: Lew <lew(at)lewscanon(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best practice for: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8"
Date: 2007-08-15 21:09:46
Message-ID: 5OGdnQQrkLwH9l7bnZ2dnUVZ_r7inZ2d@comcast.com
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Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> I am not advocating what others should do. But I know what I need my
> DB to do. If I want it to store data that does not match puritanical
> standards of textual storage, then it should allow me to...

Instead you want it to store tyrannically-chosen alternatives to the user's
invalid input without regard for their intent.

Calling rejection of invalid input "puritanical" is not an engineering evaluation.

--
Lew

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