Apply encoding conversion in COPY TO FORMAT JSON

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

Commit: 7dc5bbcf220be05786a08aad2455c61b6dbd4b78
Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: 2026-05-30T01:48:45Z
Apply encoding conversion in COPY TO FORMAT JSON

CopyToJsonOneRow() sent the output of composite_to_json() directly
via CopySendData() without encoding conversion.  The text and CSV
paths convert per-attribute via pg_server_to_any() when
need_transcoding is true, but the JSON path skipped this entirely.

This meant COPY ... TO ... WITH (FORMAT json, ENCODING 'LATIN1') on
a UTF-8 server silently produced UTF-8 output, and COPY TO STDOUT
with a non-UTF-8 client_encoding would send unconverted bytes to
the client.

Apply pg_server_to_any() to the whole JSON buffer after
composite_to_json() returns, converting to the requested file
encoding when it differs from the server encoding.  Tests cover
both the explicit ENCODING option and the implicit case where
file_encoding is inherited from client_encoding.

Introduced by 7dadd38cda9 (json format for COPY TO).

Author: Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiwari.slg01@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJTYsWX-jsLzxGRAb-dWnEpGYRPbDYHwce8LctVE92LiDfM2Jw@mail.gmail.com

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