Re: default enconding

Manuel Sugawara <masm@fciencias.unam.mx> writes:
> Hi, I have found what I thing is a quite annoying behaviour of
> Postgres (psql). When you type (and ask for complation) for some
> string that has some characters not in the ASCII encoding it requires
> a double quote on it, however if you don't put those double quotes
> around it, you can still execute the query.

... in other words, it doesn't require the double quotes.  I don't see
the value of being more restrictive.  Why is this annoying?
        regards, tom lane