From: "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>
> If I understood the discussion correctly the use case is that
> there are advantages to having a database encoding different
> from UTF-8, but you'd still want sume UTF-8 columns.
>
> Wouldn't it be a better design to allow specifying the encoding
> per column? That would give you more flexibility.
Yes, you are right. In the previous discussion:
- That would be nice if available, but it is hard to implement multiple
encodings in one database.
- Some people (I'm not sure many or few) are NCHAR/NVARCHAR in other DBMSs.
To invite them to PostgreSQL, it's important to support national character
feature syntactically and document it in the manual. This is the first
step.
- As the second step, we can implement multiple encodings in one database.
According to the SQL standard, "NCHAR(n)" is equivalent to "CHAR(n)
CHARACTER SET cs", where cs is an implementation-defined character set.
Regards
MauMau
