Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > "Salem Berhanu" <salemb4@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > What exactly is the SQL_ASCII encoding in postgres? > > SQL_ASCII isn't so much an encoding as the declaration that you don't > care about encodings. It's too late to consider renaming this SQL_RAW or something like that is it? It is a huge source of confusion. Perhaps have a separate "ascii" encoding that checks and complains if any non-ascii characters are present. -- greg
