Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2005 14:57 schrieb Oliver Jowett: > >>My 8.0.0 (what I happen to have on hand) initdb creates a SQL_ASCII >>cluster by default unless I specify -E. > > > Then you use the locale C. We could create a 7-bit encoding and map it to > locale C, I suppose.
Ok, I think that's what I intended :) Do we choose SQL_ASCII in any case other than a C locale? > That would cripple a system that many users are perfectly content with now. > I > compare this to the occasional requests to make pg_hba.conf reject everyone > by default. We have to err a little on the side of usablity. Anyway, the > issue here is the mismatch between the C locale and the SQL_ASCII encoding. > The solution is to fix that mismatch, not cripple the entire system. Well, I wasn't thinking of using a 7-bit encoding always, just as a replacement for the cases where we currently choose SQL_ASCII. Does that sound reasonable? -O ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]