Fwd: PQexecPrepared() question

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From: Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: PQexecPrepared() question
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>


Hi, Lauren’s,

On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2025-12-18 at 07:20 -0800, Igor Korot wrote:
> > Imagine following scenario:
> >
> > I have 2 machines. One is running PG server on *nix. Second is my app on
> Windows.
> >
> > An application starts for the first time.
> >
> > What is “clientencoding in this case?
>
> If I read the code correctly:
>
> - if PGCLIENTENCODING is set in the environment of the client executable,
> that


No it is not.


>
> - otherwise, if "client_encoding" is set on the server, that


I guess I is.
But what is the purpose of setting client encoding on the server? It is for
the client

Thank you.


>
> - otherwise, SQL_ASCII
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>