PostgreSQL Discussion - No reaction to client

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No reaction to client_encoding!

CptPicard

2005-12-20, 8:24 pm

Hello, I have two Unicode databases on two different versions of
PostgreSQL (7.3.x and 7.4.x), and I have this odd issue on both of
them... I am trying to read Latin1 strings out of them because some
parts of my business logic do not support unicode. However, I just
can't get the backend to do the transformation for me. I have tried
both "set client_encoding to latin1" and \encoding latin1. The variable
does get set properly, but selects still return only Unicode! I have
the problem using both pgsql and Ruby DBI. I probably don't understand
the big picture about the character encoding issue here so bear with
me, but I'm pretty lost...

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