Re: default client encoding in postgresql.conf

Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>>> looking in my freshly installed 8.3.3, I see this in the postgresql.conf
>>> #client_encoding = sql_ascii            # actually, defaults to database
>>> # encoding

> But isn't putting a default that is likely to be wrong just encouraging people 
> to set it to something more permanent as an attempt to "correct" this? 

Huh?  We *aren't* putting in a default.

This conversation is beginning to suggest to me that client_encoding
shouldn't be listed in postgresql.conf at all.
        regards, tom lane