Am Montag, 18. September 2006 15:48 schrieb Tom Lane:
> So there's already an environment dependency, although it's for
> something much less likely to be set than LANG. I tend to agree
> that we'd better avoid having dumps depend on LANG ... wonder if
> we should remove the dependency on PGCLIENTENCODING too.
I'd say that in principle, any console application should respect the
console's encoding settings by default. pg_dump is not only a backup tool
but also useful for quasi-interactive use. We could check if stdout goes to
a terminal or something like that.
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Peter Eisentraut
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