"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> How do I get the encoding of the server?
There is none. The per-database encodings are the only truth.
We aren't likely to institute one in future, either; the trend
seems to be more towards decentralization than the reverse.
> I would suggest force Unicode...
Seems quite unacceptable to those who aren't using Unicode.
regards, tom lane