Re: Passing server_encoding to the client is not future-proof

Carlos Guzman Alvarez writes:

> > The JDBC guys wanted to know it.  Why is not clear to me, but I figured
> > it was easy enough to make them happy.
>
> I'm using it too in my .NET Data Provider for allow atomatic encoding of
> strings before send it to the server.

Why would you want to do that?  The server can do the encoding conversion.
You're bound to get into trouble using this approach.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net