Re: character encoding in StartupMessage

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-02-28T19:49:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com> writes:
> On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> What about the pg_hba.conf file? Is there a provision to specify the  
> encoding or some other way to deal with non-ascii characters?

pg_hba.conf is also processed without any locale considerations,
ie, effectively the "bunch of bits" approach Martijn mentioned.

			regards, tom lane