On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> They're used for character set encoding conversions, eg when > database_encoding = UTF8 and client_encoding = LATIN1 (or any other > non-identical combination). Thanks, Tom and Craig; that makes perfect sense. I'd rather not assume anything about the client encoding, but I do know that the server encoding will always be UTF8. Am I correct, then, in thinking that I only need the conversion procs whose names start with utf8_and...? (I wrote this response a few days ago, but realized that I forgot to reply-all to the list)
