On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:17:49PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > I guess the key point might be "what do we do if the client locale > is C?" Perhaps if it's C, we continue to use the server encoding > as we have in the past. This would be a reasonable fallback in > other cases where we fail to deduce an encoding from the locale, too. In that case I would suggest to also emit a suitable warning (with a postgresql.conf option to switch that off which defaults to ON). Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346