On Mar 22, 12:36 pm, scott.marl...@xxxxxxxxx (Scott Marlowe) wrote: > ayup. As long as they're legal for your encoding, they'll go right in. > If you wanna stuff in anything no matter the encoding, use a database > initialized for SQL_ASCII encoding. Thanks, everyone, for your contribution to this thread. I'm approaching the database design of my web application differently, now. Before, I was planning to have CHECK constraints in all of my text or char fields, to keep out all semicolons, single quotes, and anything else that looked dangerous. Now I'm thinking that I'll be using htmlentities(), pg_escape_string() and pg_query_params() as safety filters, and otherwise allowing users to store whatever they want to, in the fields where I store/retrieve user input. Scott, your comment above introduced some new concepts to me, and now I'm thinking about foreign language text and other ways to be more flexible. I found this page that talks about encoding: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/multibyte.html And I wonder why you like SQL_ASCII better than UTF8, and whether others have any opinions about those two. (My web server's LC_CTYPE is C, so I can use any character set.) Wouldn't UTF8 allow more characters than SQL_ASCII? Thanks again! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
