On Fri, 2025-12-19 at 23:04 -0800, Igor Korot wrote: > > SQL_ASCII as client encoding means that no conversion will take place. > > > > Still, the database encoding (I suspect UTF8) will govern what can be stored > > in the database. Anything that is not valid UTF-8 will be rejected. > > Rejected how?
As you experienced: by throwing an error. > > A SELECT will never cause an error - the client will just receive data > > in UTF-8. > > And then what? The *client application* will receive UTF-8 data. Yours, Laurenz Albe
