On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:33 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 10:22 schrieb Karel Zak: > > in PG: unicode = utf8 = utf-8 > > > > Our internal routines in src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c accept all > > synonyms. The "official" internal PG name for UTF-8 is "UNICODE" :-( > > I think in the SQL standard the official name is UTF8. If someone wants to > verify that this is the case and is exactly the encoding we offer (perhaps > modulo the 0x10000 issue), then it might make sense to change the canonical > form to UTF8.
Yes, I think we should fix it and remove UNICODE and WIN encoding names from PG code. Karel -- Karel Zak <[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