Tom Lane writes:
> > {"server_encoding", PGC_USERSET}, &server_encoding_string,
> > "SQL_ASCII", assign_server_encoding, show_server_encoding
>
> I'm not sure why this one is marked PGC_USERSET --- seems like it should
> not be possible to override it from SET. It should be documented as a
> read-only option, I think. (Looks ... actually it is set up that way
> in CVS tip.)
Do we even need this one? If you want to find out the server encoding
(which should be rare anyway), you can select it from pg_database.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net