> > > > This patch will break the JDBC driver. The jdbc driver relies on the
> > > > value returned by getdatabaseencoding() to determine the server encoding
> > > > so that it can convert to unicode.
> > >
> > > Then the driver needs to be changed to accept the new encoding names as
> > > well. (Or couldn't we convert it to Unicode in the server?)
> >
> > This will break the backward compatibility.
>
> How so?
Apparently 7.1 JDBC driver does not understand the value 7.2
getdatabaseencoding() returns.
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Tatsuo Ishii
