Re: iconv -c ?

On 7/22/13 5:06 AM, Jan-Peter Seifert wrote:
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013 um 16:03 Uhr
> Von: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>
>
>> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 16:55 +0200, Jan-Peter Seifert wrote:
>
>>> it seems ( for quite some time now ) that PostgreSQL is using the -c
>>> option of iconv when exporting data to a different encoding:
>>> http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/libiconv/documentation/libiconv-1.13/iconv.1.html
>
>> PostgreSQL doesn't use iconv at all.
>
> Hello Peter,
>
> sure? The Windows versions of PostgreSQL ( 8.4 - 9.2 ) have an iconv.dll in their bin folder.

That might be because it's a dependency of gettext.