"Phoenix Kiula" <phoenix.kiula@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Thanks. Is there an encoding that is so flexible that it will silently > accept whatever I send to it without throwing an exception? SQL_ASCII does that. Whether it's a good idea to use it is questionable. One thing to think about is that you will be unable to provide translation to and from different client encodings --- the database will always just regurgitate the bytes it was given, since it doesn't really know what encoding they are in. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings