David Blewett <david(at)dawninglight(dot)net> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Well, it might make sense to allow an ENCODING option attached to a COPY
>> with a file source/destination. I remain of the opinion that overriding
>> client_encoding on a transfer to/from the client is a bad idea.
> I really don't see how it is any different from manually flipping the
> client_encoding before/after the transfer.
The difference is that the client-side code gets told that the encoding
changed if you do the latter.
regards, tom lane