From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Dennis Björklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: sql_ascii |
Date: | 2003-06-16 12:43:15 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0306161324330.2751-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Dennis Björklund writes:
> Why do we have SQL_ASCII?
It gives a simple default behavior for people who don't want to deal with
character set issues.
> I could understand it if we only could store 7-bit strings there. But
> SQL_ASCII lets you store 8-bit values. Should I understand SQL_ASCII
> simply as 8-bit strings of unknown charset?
Something like that. On the client side you could also understand it as
whatever the server is using, as long as that's single-byte. On the
server side it's 7-bit clean and 8-bit sometimes-clean. It's not pretty.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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