Re: [Fwd: pgadmin3 clientencoding]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:Andreas.Pflug@web.de]
> Sent: 10 June 2003 09:46
> To: pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] [Fwd: pgadmin3 clientencoding]
>
> Additionally, I wonder if there's an individual client encoding
> necessary for tree display; I believe it's sufficient for it to be
> Unicode to support all possible encodings. Think of a situation where
> one SQL_ASCII and one EUC_JP database are residing on the
> same server.
> Because there's no way to convert back and forth, it's not
> possible to
> display the second database if the first is retrieved using
> its native
> encoding.

Hmm, good point. Perhaps we should just say Unicode all the time then
when we have a Unicode build.

>
> Do we really need special encodings, besides unicode? If so,
> this should
> be implemented on a tree node (Server property: client
> encoding) to make
> it possible to let the change of encoding have immediate
> effect, or as
> the "System Object" setting is implemented.

No, because then you are mixing schema with commands that may affect the
schema in non-obvious ways.

Regards, Dave.