On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Err, actually, now that I think about it, that might be a problem:
>> what happens if we're trying to test two characters for equality and
>> the encoding conversion fails?
>
> This is surely all entirely doable given the encoding infrastructure
> we already have. We might need some minor refactoring, eg to have
> a way of not throwing an error, but it's not going to be that hard
> to achieve if somebody wants to do it. So I still see little reason
> for making the JSON type behave visibly differently in non-UTF8 database
> encodings.
OK. It feels a little grotty to me, but I'll go with the flow.
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