Re: new FAQ entry - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tim Allen
Subject Re: new FAQ entry
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Msg-id 4487CF7E.9060909@proximity.com.au
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In response to Re: new FAQ entry  (Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>)
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Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> Tim Allen schrieb:

[snip]

>> The way to tell PostgreSQL what encoding you want to use is by use of
>> the client_encoding GUC variable, eg
>>
>> set client_encoding to 'LATIN1';
>
>
> If you cant educate your client application to set this option on connect,
> you can set this per user:
>
> ALTER USER clientappuser SET client_encoding to 'what your app uses';

Good point. I guess it's worth mentioning this and some of the other
ways you can set the encoding. Though there are actually quite a few
different ways - that might make the entry overly long. Opinions?

Tim

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