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Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes:
> If there's an encoding mismatch between the server and client, does
> "something" (like a PQ driver) convert text in the data stream from the
> source encoding to the target encoding?

The server does that itself.

			regards, tom lane