On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 3:07 PM Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2023-10-06 at 13:33 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > What I think people really want is a whole column in > > some encoding that isn't the normal one for that database. > > Do people really want that? I'd be curious to know why.
Because it's a feature that exists in other products and so having it eases migrations and/or replication of data between systems. I'm not saying that there are a lot of people who want this, any more. I think there used to be more interest in it. But the point of the comment was that people who want multiple character set support want it as a per-column property, not a per-value property. I've never heard of anyone wanting to store text blobs in multiple distinct character sets in the same column. But I have heard of people wanting text blobs in multiple distinct character sets in the same database, each one in its own column. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
