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

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: Server-side support of all encodings
Date
Msg-id 20070415.200942.119856171.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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In response to Re: Server-side support of all encodings  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Server-side support of all encodings  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> writes:
> >> 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.
> 
> > Ok. Shall I go ahead and remove JOHAB in HEAD?
> 
> +1 for me.
> 
>             regards, tom lane

Done.

BTW, do we have to modify pg_dump or pg_restore so that it can
automatically adjust JOHAB to UTF8 (it's the only safe encoding
compatible with JOHAB)? I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. Maybe
documenting in the release note is enough? I guess that there is 0
users who are using JOHAB.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan


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