Re: [BUGS] BUG #6246: character encoding for 64 bit

2011-10-12 Thread bushcraftrelf
Kevin Grittner wrote: > > > WIN1512 supports characters which are not supported by LATIN1. If > you sent such characters to the database, what would you expect to > happen? > > -Kevin > Hi Kevin, I forgot to mention a few things. One is that the problem only arises in postgres 9.1 - I can

Re: [BUGS] BUG #6246: character encoding for 64 bit

2011-10-14 Thread bushcraftrelf
Surely the windows installation of psql ought to be set up to work with the terminal already? -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/BUG-6246-character-encoding-for-64-bit-tp4888531p4902052.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - bugs mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [BUGS] BUG #6246: character encoding for 64 bit

2011-10-14 Thread bushcraftrelf
I think I've figured it out - thanks all for your help. Craig Ringer appears to be right. >From documentation for psql 9.1 under Usage>Connecting to a database "If at least one of standard input or standard output are a terminal, then psql sets the client encoding to "auto", which will detect the