Re: Passing server_encoding to the client is not future-proof - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> One of the reasons for not doing conversion in binary mode is to have an
>> escape hatch for unconvertible characters, eg for dump purposes.

> That functionality is already provided by setting the client encoding to
> SQL_ASCII.

Hm.  Okay, so are you arguing that we should not remove encoding
conversion from the binary-transmission case?
        regards, tom lane