| From: | Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: #postgresql report |
| Date: | 2004-06-15 20:53:49 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0406152245350.8193-100000@zigo.dhs.org |
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wonder though, do the requestors actually know what they're asking for?
> Are they really asking for encoding changes, or are they asking for
> locale changes?
Most people don't know exactly what they want.
A lot of people use SQL_ASCII databases and don't know exactly what they
have put in there. Often they need help to know what they use today and
then they need help to dump and restore. In most cases people are
converting from something to unicode.
--
/Dennis Björklund
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