"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> The reason it will help with support is because newbies will go >>> "SQL_ASCII! I don't want ascii!". >> >> No they won't. They will likely not even notice this message >> in the sea of other messages they've never seen before; and >> even if they do notice it, they will certainly not realize >> that they don't want it.
> Another way would be to make -E a mandatory parameter, and remove the > default completely. That way you have to make a conscious decision. > Can't claim surprise then. I don't think surprise is the problem; I think the problem is knowing what setting will produce the result you want. Newbies are fundamentally unlikely to have this knowledge :-( What I personally wish we could do is eliminate database encoding as a separate setting altogether, and drive it off the locale selection. I don't know how to do that though. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly