Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> writes:
> Please remember \encoding or SET client_encoding appear
> *after* BOM at beginning of file. I'll agree if the condition is
> "Eat BOM at beginning of file and <<set client encoding to UTF-8>>",
As has been stated multiple times, that will not get accepted,
because it will *break* files in other encodings that chance to
match the BOM pattern.
regards, tom lane