X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD0DD8997 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:43:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 74474-10 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:43:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 606BED8901 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:43:31 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2005 18:43:32 -0000 Received: from dsl-082-083-225-255.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [82.83.225.255] by mail.gmx.net (mp019) with SMTP; 10 Sep 2005 20:43:32 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: "Marc G. Fournier" Subject: Re: a "catch all" type ... such a thing? Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:43:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org References: <20050908181850.G1104@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20050908181850.G1104@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509102043.31876.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.017 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.017] X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200509/113 X-Sequence-Number: 22660 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Are there any data types that can hold pretty much any type of > character? UTF-16 isn't supported (or its missing from teh docs), and > UTF-8 doesn't appear to have a big enough range ... UTF-8 has exactly the same "range" as UTF-16. In any case, the UTF-8 encoding in PostgreSQL is probably your best choice, unless you want to dig into the weirdness that is MULE_INTERNAL. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/