Re: Why are default encoding conversions namespace-specific? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Why are default encoding conversions namespace-specific?
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Msg-id 4334.24.211.165.134.1143503086.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Why are default encoding conversions namespace-specific?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Why are default encoding conversions namespace-specific?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane said:
> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> writes:
>>> I don't mind having encoding conversions be named within schemas, but
>>> I propose that any given encoding pair be allowed to have only one
>>> default conversion, period, and that when we are looking for a
>>> default conversion we find it by a non-namespace-aware search.
>
>> That doesn't sound good idea to me.
>
> What does it mean to have different "default" encoding conversions in
> different schemas?  Even if this had a sensible interpretation, I don't
> think the existing code implements it properly.

perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but why not just resolve the namespace at the
time the default conversion is created?

cheers

andrew







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