On tis, 2011-02-08 at 10:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@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"?
The canonical name of that is UTF8. But you can quote it if you want to spell it differently. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
