Re: garbage in psql -l

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Anyway, that patch to set the client encoding automatically from the
> locale sounds even more useful now.

I think you're being overoptimistic to assume that that's going to
eliminate the issue. It might patch things for Oleg's particular
configuration; but the real problem IMO is that people are depending
on ~/.psqlrc to set encoding/locale related behavior, and that file
isn't read before executing -l/-c (not to mention -X).

I wonder whether the most prudent solution wouldn't be to prevent
default use of linestyle=unicode if ~/.psqlrc hasn't been read.

regards, tom lane