Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> Is anyone planning to do further work on this? This appears to be
>> blocking the client_encoding=auto feature.
>
> Huh? Why would there be any linkage? This is just offering an
> alternative way to set connection options, it has nothing to do
> with what the set of options is.
The client_encoding=auto feature would use the new function in psql to
set the client_encoding to 'auto'. Otherwise it needs to construct a
properly quoted connection string and pass it to the existing
PQconnectdb, which is a bit laborious.
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