Re: [PATCHES] encoding names - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [PATCHES] encoding names
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0108242127150.677-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] encoding names  (Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>)
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Re: [PATCHES] encoding names
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Tatsuo Ishii writes:

> > Maybe we should not touch getdatabaseencoding() right now, given that the
> > names we currently use are apparently almost correct anyway and
> > considering the pain it creates to alter them, and instead implement the
> > information schema views in the future?
>
> I thought schema stuffs would be introduced in 7.2 but apparently it
> would not happen...

True, but right now we'd have to do rather elaborate changes just to
switch a couple of names to "more correct" versions.  Accepting them as
input is good, but maybe we should hold back on the output part a bit
until we can do it correctly.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter



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