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

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Passing server_encoding to the client is not future-proof
Date: 2003-07-29 13:53:56
Message-ID: 1059486834.52827.7.camel@jester
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On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Then why did we add a GUC variable "server_encoding" at all?
>
> The JDBC guys wanted to know it. Why is not clear to me, but I figured
> it was easy enough to make them happy.

It could still be useful for stored procedures (particularly Java ones)
which would have to deal with the encoding at the server.

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