Dennis Björklund writes: > Why do we have SQL_ASCII?
It gives a simple default behavior for people who don't want to deal with character set issues. > I could understand it if we only could store 7-bit strings there. But > SQL_ASCII lets you store 8-bit values. Should I understand SQL_ASCII > simply as 8-bit strings of unknown charset? Something like that. On the client side you could also understand it as whatever the server is using, as long as that's single-byte. On the server side it's 7-bit clean and 8-bit sometimes-clean. It's not pretty. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match