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Re: The "char" type versus non-ASCII characters

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-12-09T13:35:41Z
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> I think we could consider char to be a single-byte bytea and use the 
> escape format of bytea for char.  That way there is some precedent and 
> we don't add yet another encoding or escape format.

Do you want to take that as far as changing backslash to print
as '\\' ?

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Change type "char"'s I/O format for non-ASCII characters.