Re: client_encoding directive is ignored in - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:
> > + /* Flag to we need to initialize client encoding info */
> > + static bool need_to_init_client_encoding = -1;
> 
> Surely that should be int, not bool.

Oops. Will fix.

> > !                     if (!PQsendQuery(conn, "begin; select pg_client_encoding(); commit"))
> 
> Doesn't this break compatibility with pre-7.2 databases?  AFAICT that
> function was introduced in 7.2.

Yes, but there seems no other way to solve the problem and I thought we
do not guarantee the compatibilty between 7.3 frontend and pre 7.3 servers.
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Tatsuo Ishii