On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 10:17 AM Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> wrote: > I think intuitively, this facility ought to work like client_encoding.
I hadn't really considered client_encoding as a precedent for this setting. A lot of my discomfort with the proposed mechanism also applies to client_encoding, namely, suppose you call some function or procedure or whatever and it changes client_encoding on your behalf and now your communication with the server is all screwed up. That seems very unpleasant. Yet it's also existing behavior. I think one could conclude on these facts either that (a) client_encoding is fine and the problems with controlling behavior using that kind of mechanism are mostly theoretical or (b) that we messed up with client_encoding and shouldn't add any more mistakes of the same ilk or (c) that we should really be looking at redesigning the way client_encoding works, too. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com