Re: Passing server_encoding to the client is not future-proof

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Has anyone thought of what will happen to the server_encoding parameter
> when the character set/encoding will be settable for individual columns
> and the concept of a global server encoding will go away? What will
> happen to clients that make use of this parameter?

I would imagine that we'd keep the concept of a per-database encoding,
but it would be become a default value for per-column encoding choices,
rather than the One True Value. Clients could probably still make use
of server_encoding, though I'm unclear on what they'd use it for now,
let alone then. ISTM client_encoding is the only setting the client
need deal with directly.

regards, tom lane