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From: Igor Korot <[email protected]>
To: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PQexecPrepared() question
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:20:12 -0800
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Hi,

On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2025-12-16 at 21:53 -0800, Igor Korot wrote:
> > Is there some default value for client_encoding?
>
> The default value for a client connection is whatever the parameter
> "client_encoding" was set to in the PostgreSQL server configuration.


Imagine following scenario:

I have 2 machines. One is running PG server on *nix. Second is my app on
Windows.

An application starts for the first time.

What is “clientencoding in this case?

Thank you.


>
> But that value can be overridden in several ways:
>
> - explicitly by setting "client_encoding" in the connect string
>
> - with the SQL statement SET by the client
>
> - if the client has "client_encoding=auto", by the encoding set in
>   the client's environment
>
> - by setting the PGCLIENTENCODING environment variable
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>

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