Re: Add ENCODING option to COPY

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On fre, 2011-02-04 at 10:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The reason that we use quotes in CREATE DATABASE is that encoding
>> names aren't assumed to be valid SQL identifiers.  If this patch isn't
>> following the CREATE DATABASE precedent, it's the patch that's wrong,
>> not CREATE DATABASE.

> Since encoding names are built-in and therefore well known, and the
> names have been aligned with the SQL standard names, which are
> identifiers, I don't think this argument is valid (anymore).

What about "UTF-8"?
        regards, tom lane