Re: encoding names

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: <barry(at)xythos(dot)com>, <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: encoding names
Date: 2001-08-18 10:48:45
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0108181247280.677-100000@peter.localdomain
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Tatsuo Ishii writes:

> > Barry Lind writes:
> >
> > > This patch will break the JDBC driver. The jdbc driver relies on the
> > > value returned by getdatabaseencoding() to determine the server encoding
> > > so that it can convert to unicode.
> >
> > Then the driver needs to be changed to accept the new encoding names as
> > well. (Or couldn't we convert it to Unicode in the server?)
>
> This will break the backward compatibility.

How so?

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