Re: UTF-8 Encoding and Decoding (RT #40199)

"David E. Wheeler" <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:15:16 -0800

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On Dec 17, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

>> So what would it take to make this change?
> 
> I dunno - does anyone else have opinions, pro or con? Sounds fairly
> straightforward to me. I'd probably be in favor of just removing
> pg_enable_utf8 entirely.

I think you'd need to leave it for backcompat, so that folks can turn it off if the database isn't UTF-8, and so that existing apps that don't have it on don't break. But I agree that it otherwise seems pretty straight-forward.

Best,

Davdi