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Re: Client Messages

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Jim Mlodgenski <jimmy76@gmail.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-01-26T17:49:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On tor, 2012-01-26 at 10:34 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> For postgresql.conf I think we could make a rule that it's always in 
> UTF-8. We haven't had to take a stance on the encoding used in 
> postgresql.conf before, but IMHO UTF-8 only would be quite reasonable.

We have so far violently resisted forcing UTF-8 anywhere, and this
doesn't seem like a good place to start.

We could perhaps recognize an encoding declaration like this in the
file:

http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#encoding-declarations