Re: encoding names - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: encoding names
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0108181247280.677-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: encoding names  (Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>)
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Tatsuo Ishii writes:

> > Barry Lind writes:
> >
> > > This patch will break the JDBC driver.  The jdbc driver relies on the
> > > value returned by getdatabaseencoding() to determine the server encoding
> > > so that it can convert to unicode.
> >
> > Then the driver needs to be changed to accept the new encoding names as
> > well.  (Or couldn't we convert it to Unicode in the server?)
>
> This will break the backward compatibility.

How so?

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