ITAGAKI Takahiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PostgreSQL suppots SJIS, BIG5, GBK, UHC and GB18030 as client encodings, > but we cannot use them as server encodings. Are there any reason for it?
Very much so --- they aren't safe ASCII-supersets, and thus for example the parser will fail on them. Backend encodings must have the property that all bytes of a multibyte character are >= 128. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match