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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: SQL_ASCII encoding
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Msg-id 14140.1068072178@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to SQL_ASCII encoding  (CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com>)
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CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> writes:
> What exactly is the "SQL_ASCII" encoding for
> databases?

We interpret it pretty much as "we don't know the encoding".  We store
what the client sends and then regurgitate it, without any encoding
conversion in either direction.  Internal operations only understand
7-bit-ASCII characters in this mode.

            regards, tom lane

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