Tom Lane wrote:
Reflecting on the bigger picture ... I would imagine that the vast majority of existing applications depend on client_encoding settings that come from postgresql.conf, ALTER USER SET, ALTER DATABASE SET, or just the default (== database encoding). I don't think a solution that penalizes those cases and makes only the case of setting it via PGCLIENTENCODING work nicely is going to make very many people happy.
I don't have any survey data available, but I think this assessment is semantically wrong. Usefully, the client encoding can come only from the client, or be defaulted (and even that is semantically wrong). I see the other cases as workarounds.
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