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

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Passing server_encoding to the client is not future-proof
Date: 2003-08-06 07:57:55
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.56.0308060955180.1165@krusty.credativ.de
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Tom Lane writes:

> One of the reasons for not doing conversion in binary mode is to have an
> escape hatch for unconvertible characters, eg for dump purposes.

That functionality is already provided by setting the client encoding to
SQL_ASCII.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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