Re: Add encoding support to COPY

David Blewett <david(at)dawninglight(dot)net> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> What is the point? You'd generally have client_encoding set correctly
>> for your usage anyway, and if you did not, the data could confuse your
>> client-side code terribly. Offering an option to let the backend send
>> data in the "wrong" encoding does NOT seem like a good idea to me.

> The use case was that the client connection was using one encoding,
> but needed to output the file in a different encoding. So they would
> have to do the "set client_encoding" dance each time they wanted to
> export the file.

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.

regards, tom lane