On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 02:25, Hitoshi Harada <umi.tan...@gmail.com> wrote: > The patch overrides client_encoding by the added ENCODING option, and > restores it as soon as copy is done.
We cannot do that because error messages should be encoded in the original encoding even during COPY commands with encoding option. Error messages could contain non-ASCII characters if lc_messages is set. > I see some complaints ask to use > pg_do_encoding_conversion() instead of > pg_client_to_server/server_to_client(), but the former will surely add > slight overhead per reading line If we want to reduce the overhead, we should cache the conversion procedure in CopyState. How about adding something like "FmgrInfo file_to_server_covv" into it? -- Itagaki Takahiro -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
