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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Passing server_encoding to the client is not future-proof
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.56.0308060955180.1165@krusty.credativ.de
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In response to Re: Passing server_encoding to the client is not future-proof  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net

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