Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> "Salem Berhanu" <salemb4@hotmail.com> writes:
> > What exactly is the SQL_ASCII encoding in postgres?
>
> SQL_ASCII isn't so much an encoding as the declaration that you don't
> care about encodings.
It's too late to consider renaming this SQL_RAW or something like that is it?
It is a huge source of confusion.
Perhaps have a separate "ascii" encoding that checks and complains if any
non-ascii characters are present.
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greg
