On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Then why did we add a GUC variable "server_encoding" at all?
>
> The JDBC guys wanted to know it. Why is not clear to me, but I figured
> it was easy enough to make them happy.
It could still be useful for stored procedures (particularly Java ones)
which would have to deal with the encoding at the server.
