Re: Server-side support of all encodings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Server-side support of all encodings
Date
Msg-id 15585.1174917143@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Server-side support of all encodings  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>)
Responses Re: Server-side support of all encodings  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>)
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Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> writes:
> Sigh. From the first day when JOHAB was supported (back to 7.3 days),
> it should had not been in the server encodings. JOHAB's second byte
> definitely contain 0x41 and above. *johab*.map just reflect the
> fact. I think we should remove JOHAB from the server encodings list.
> I'm afraid users who have JOHAB encoded databases get angry, though.

I think the best way to proceed is probably to fix this in HEAD but
not back-patch it.  During a dump and reload the encoding can be
corrected to something safe.
        regards, tom lane


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