On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takah...@oss.ntt.co.jp> wrote: > > Jaime Casanova <ja...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > >> i migrate a ms sql server database to postgres and was trying some >> queries from the application to find if everything works right... >> when i was looking to those queries i found some that has a notation >> for nvarchar (ej: campo = N'sometext') > > Do you have documentation for N'...' literal in SQLServer? > Does it mean unicode literal? What is the difference from U& literal? > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-syntax-lexical.html >
nop, only thing i found is about NVARCHAR: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186939.aspx but it has no examples about the N'' notation although you can find examples of it use here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd776381.aspx#BasicSyntax > PostgreSQL doesn't have nvarchar types (UTF16 in MSSQL), and only > have mutlti-tyte characters. So I think you can remove N and just > use "SET client_encoding = UTF8" in the cases. > i don't want to remove it! i'm trying to understand if this is a bug that will be removed if no i can safely tell my client to not look for those queries so it has less work to do for the migration -- Jaime Casanova www.2ndQuadrant.com Soporte y capacitaciĆ³n de PostgreSQL -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers