Re: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes)
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Msg-id 20101220190141.GA13071@svana.org
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In response to Re: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes)  (Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes)  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Re: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes)  (Nicolas Barbier <nicolas.barbier@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:03:56AM +0900, Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 01:34, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> I agree that "the default encoding is UTF-8", but it should be
> >> configurable by the 'encoding' parameter in control files.
> >
> > Why is it necessary to have such a parameter at all?
>
> UTF-8 is not a superset of all encodings.

I think you mean Unicode is not a superset of all character sets. I've
heard this before but never found what's missing. [citation needed]?

Have a nice day,
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