Re: [HACKERS] default client encoding in postgresql.conf

2008-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert Treat wrote: >>> This conversation is beginning to suggest to me that client_encoding >>> shouldn't be listed in postgresql.conf at all. >> >> Yeah, that sure seems better than what we currently have. > I should have thought there was a good ar

Re: [HACKERS] default client encoding in postgresql.conf

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Robert Treat wrote: This conversation is beginning to suggest to me that client_encoding shouldn't be listed in postgresql.conf at all. Yeah, that sure seems better than what we currently have. I should have thought there was a good argument for preventing its being set in postg

Re: [HACKERS] default client encoding in postgresql.conf

2008-06-12 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 12 June 2008 21:11:57 Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> looking in my freshly installed 8.3.3, I see this in the > >>> postgresql.conf #client_encoding = sql_ascii# actually, > >>> defaults to database # encoding > > > > But isn't putting a def

Re: [HACKERS] default client encoding in postgresql.conf

2008-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> looking in my freshly installed 8.3.3, I see this in the postgresql.conf >>> #client_encoding = sql_ascii# actually, defaults to database >>> # encoding > But isn't putting a default that is likely to be wrong just encouraging > people > t

Re: [HACKERS] default client encoding in postgresql.conf

2008-06-12 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 12 June 2008 17:38:26 Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > looking in my freshly installed 8.3.3, I see this in the postgresql.conf > > #client_encoding = sql_ascii# actually, defaults to database > >

Re: [HACKERS] default client encoding in postgresql.conf

2008-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > looking in my freshly installed 8.3.3, I see this in the postgresql.conf > #client_encoding = sql_ascii# actually, defaults to database ># encoding > Now, certainly initdb can't know

[HACKERS] default client encoding in postgresql.conf

2008-06-12 Thread Robert Treat
looking in my freshly installed 8.3.3, I see this in the postgresql.conf #client_encoding = sql_ascii# actually, defaults to database # encoding Now, certainly initdb can't know for sure what encoding a future database will b