On 12/19/25 11:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
> <mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>> wrote:
>
> Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com <mailto:ikorot01@gmail.com>> writes:
> > But what is the purpose of setting client encoding on the server?
> It is for
> > the client
>
> No, it's to tell the server what encoding to transmit to the client
> (as well as what encoding strings coming from the client are in).
>
>
> If there's an encoding mismatch between the server and client, does
> "something" (like a PQ driver) convert text in the data stream from the
> source encoding to the target encoding?
It is explained here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/multibyte.html#MULTIBYTE-AUTOMATIC-CONVERSION
>
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