"John Hansen" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tatsuo Ishii wrote: >> We have developed patches which relaxes the character >> validation so that PostgreSQL accepts invalid characters. > That is just plain 100% wrong!! That was my first reaction too. Why would this be a good idea? If someone does want an encoding-agnostic database, they can set it as SQL_ASCII. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match