> > I would not have been real surprised to hear that psql's \encoding is
> > out of sync, but it *does* surprise me that "show client_encoding" might
> > not match pg_client_encoding(). I would think those are looking at the
> > same backend state variable. Any theory how that could happen?
>
> It occurs to me that the CVS-tip code tries to set client_encoding much
> earlier in backend startup than was the case when this was driven by
> a SET command issued by libpq after backend startup completed. However,
> it works fine for me. Why isn't it working for you?
I guess that's because your database encoding is SQL_ASCII. Could you
try with an EUC_JP encoded database?
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Tatsuo Ishii