Re: encoding of PostgreSQL messages

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Reflecting on the bigger picture ...  I would imagine that the vast
>> majority of existing applications depend on client_encoding settings
>> that come from postgresql.conf, ALTER USER SET, ALTER DATABASE SET, or
>> just the default (== database encoding).  I don't think a solution that
>> penalizes those cases and makes only the case of setting it via
>> PGCLIENTENCODING work nicely is going to make very many people happy.

> I don't have any survey data available, but I think this assessment is
> semantically wrong.  Usefully, the client encoding can come only from
> the client, or be defaulted (and even that is semantically wrong).

In an ideal world, perhaps so, but do you deny my point that that's not
reality?

            regards, tom lane