On Feb 28, 2006, at 1:38 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
I could not find anything in the Frontend/Backend protocol docs
about
character encoding in the StartupMessage. Assuming it is legal for a
database or user name to have unicode characters, how is this
handled
when nothing yet has been said about the client encoding?
A similar badness is that if you issue CREATE DATABASE from a UTF8
database, the dbname will be stored as UTF8. Then, if you go to a
LATIN1 database and create another it will be stored as LATIN1.
Yeah, this has been discussed before. Database and user names both
have this affliction.
So are the database/user names in the startup message compared using
the default encoding of the cluster or is just a straight byte
comparison with no consideration of the encoding?
Thanks,
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL
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