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Re: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes)

Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>

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From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, PostgreSQL-Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-20T00:03:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 01:34, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I agree that "the default encoding is UTF-8", but it should be
>> configurable by the 'encoding' parameter in control files.
>
> Why is it necessary to have such a parameter at all?

UTF-8 is not a superset of all encodings.

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Itagaki Takahiro