> OK, can we better document that GUC client_encoding is broken, then fix
> in 7.4?
Actually the problem can be divided into two parts:
1) backend does not process GUC client_encoding.
2) libpq does not ask the backend's client_encoding, instead it asks
datanbase encoding when it starts up the connection. This is just a
mistake.
I think we could fix 1) without any backward compatibilty problem and
should be applied to both 7.3-STATBLE and current.
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Tatsuo Ishii