On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > But what is the purpose of setting client encoding on the server? It is
> for
> > the client
>
> No, it's to tell the server what encoding to transmit to the client
> (as well as what encoding strings coming from the client are in).
>
If there's an encoding mismatch between the server and client, does
"something" (like a PQ driver) convert text in the data stream from the
source encoding to the target encoding?
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