Re: [HACKERS] Invalid unicode in COPY problem

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Tatsuo Ishii" <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, linux(at)alteeve(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Invalid unicode in COPY problem
Date: 2005-05-08 04:45:33
Message-ID: 8348.1115527533@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> We have developed patches which relaxes the character
>> validation so that PostgreSQL accepts invalid characters.

> That is just plain 100% wrong!!

That was my first reaction too. Why would this be a good idea?
If someone does want an encoding-agnostic database, they can
set it as SQL_ASCII.

regards, tom lane

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