Re: nvarchar notation accepted? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jaime Casanova
Subject Re: nvarchar notation accepted?
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Msg-id AANLkTikho3oMY2qesFGCnif2S4Cq331Yz1YioBGHXSgC@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: nvarchar notation accepted?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Actually, the lexer translates N'foo' to NCHAR 'foo' and then the
> grammar treats that just like CHAR 'foo'.  In short, the N doesn't do
> anything very useful, and it certainly doesn't have any effect on
> encoding behavior.  I think this is something Tom Lockhart put in ten or
> so years back, and never got as far as making it actually do anything
> helpful.
>

so, the N'' syntax is fine and i don't need to hunt them as a migration step?

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Jaime Casanova         www.2ndQuadrant.com
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