On 04/16/2018 10:18 AM, Keith Fiske wrote:




So playing around with the "client_encoding" configuration option in postgresql.conf. According to the docs, setting this should set the default encoding for any client that connects, right?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-CLIENT-ENCODING <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-CLIENT-ENCODING>

That description also seems misleading in saying that the default client encoding is what the database encoding is as well. At least as far as psql is concerned, right? I've tried setting that value in postgresql.conf but psql keeps setting it to UTF8 when I connect to the SQL_ASCII database unless I then specifically run "set client_encoding = 'SQL_ASCII';"

The order that parameters are evaluated for libpq programs is:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/libpq-connect.html

"PQconnectdbParams

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If any parameter is NULL or an empty string, the corresponding environment variable (see Section 33.14) is checked. If the environment variable is not set either, then the indicated built-in defaults are used.

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Keith Fiske
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Crunchy Data - http://crunchydata.com


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