Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> There's a large undercurrent of "I say it's bad for you" in
>> this thread, with frankly nothing to back it up. If we try to
>> be as nanny-ish as you're suggesting here, we'll just annoy
>> users.
>
> +1.
+1
I can definitely see a place for an ASCII7 encoding which would
reject anything with the high bit set; but there is a clear place
for the current SQL_ASCII, too. Eliminating it would be much pain
for no discernible gain.
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