dates and encoding

Been fooling around a bit with settings

NOTICE:  DateStyle is ISO with European conventions

Great but how do I get set date2 = date 'date1' + interval '30 days' to
work? it gives a "bad external date representation" error

NOTICE:  Current client encoding is 'UNICODE'
NOTICE:  Current server encoding is 'LATIN1'

Why is the client encoding different from the server encoding? They were
both the same in 7.1.x weren't they?

Cheers

Tony Grant

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