Thread: Re: [HACKERS] Passing server_encoding to the client is not future-proof

Re: [HACKERS] Passing server_encoding to the client is not future-proof

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
JDBC guys, why do you need to know the server encoding?

Tom Lane writes:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Then why did we add a GUC variable "server_encoding" at all?
>
> The JDBC guys wanted to know it.  Why is not clear to me, but I figured
> it was easy enough to make them happy.

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