Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:09 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> That doesn't seem like a particularly good idea in view of the recent
>> changes in psql to try to intuit a default encoding from its locale
>> environment. If I say --encoding in the command line, that means I want
>> that encoding, not an environment-dependent one.
> Actually, in light of that we might want to override PGCLIENTENCODING to
> SQL_ASCII, so we get back the results in ASCII (assuming an all-ASCII
> test), instead of whatever the client encoding might say, which might
> not be an ASCII superset.
Well, if you set client_encoding to that, what you will get is no
conversion, which is exactly the same result as what you'll get from
setting it the same as server_encoding, which is the current behavior.
regards, tom lane