Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> True. It's a workaround, but I think it's acceptable at this stage.
>> We need to get some experience with this facility before we can
>> refine it.
> Hmm? If we decide now that it's not going to have encoding conversion,
> we won't able to change it later.
How so? If the feature currently allows only ASCII data, the behavior
would be upward compatible with a future version that is able to accept
and convert non-ASCII characters.
regards, tom lane