Re: Add ENCODING option to COPY

2011/2/9 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> On fre, 2011-02-04 at 10:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> The reason that we use quotes in CREATE DATABASE is that encoding
>>> names aren't assumed to be valid SQL identifiers.  If this patch isn't
>>> following the CREATE DATABASE precedent, it's the patch that's wrong,
>>> not CREATE DATABASE.
>
>> Since encoding names are built-in and therefore well known, and the
>> names have been aligned with the SQL standard names, which are
>> identifiers, I don't think this argument is valid (anymore).
>
> What about "UTF-8"?

Then, quote it?

db1=# set client_encoding to utf-8;
ERROR: syntax error at or near "-"

Regards,

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Hitoshi Harada