Type: | string |
Default: | SQL_ASCII |
Context: | user |
Restart: | false |
Sets the client-side encoding (character set). The default is to use the database encoding. The character sets supported by the PostgreSQL server are described in multibyte-charset-supported.
Recommendations
Should match server_encoding unless you have a really good reason why not.
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