Re: client encoding that psql command sets

Thanks for your support.

Best regards,
Tsubasa Sakamoto

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albe Laurenz [mailto:laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 6:12 PM
> To: Tsubasa Sakamoto *EXTERN*; 'Adrian Klaver'
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: RE: [GENERAL] client encoding that psql command sets
>
> [CC'ed -hackers]
>
> Tsubasa Sakamoto wrote:
> >> Not sure that it makes a difference but the docs say psql looks at
> >> LC_CTYPE not LANG for Unix systems. You did not say what OS you are
> >> working on though from the examples I am guessing some form of Unix.
>
> > The LC_CTYPE environment variable was set up and re-verified.
> > The result of psql command is following.
> >
> > [Result]
> > % setenv LC_CTYPE ja_JP.eucJP
> >
> > % psql postgres -f test.txt -o result.txt EUC_JP
> >
> > % psql postgres -f test.txt > result.txt
> > UTF8
> >
> > % psql postgres -o result.txt < test.txt
> > UTF8
> >
> > % psql postgres < test.txt > result.txt
> > UTF8
> >
> > Even when a LC_CTYPE environment variable was set up, the result did not
> change.
> > What do you think?
>
> I think that the documentation contradicts the code.
>
> In bin/psql/settings.h:
>
> typedef struct _psqlSettings
> {
> [...]
> bool notty; /* stdin or stdout is not a tty (as
> determined
> * on startup) */ [...] } PsqlSettings;
>
> extern PsqlSettings pset;
>
> In bin/psql/command.c and bin/psql/startup.c:
>
> keywords[6] = "client_encoding";
> values[6] = (pset.notty || getenv("PGCLIENTENCODING")) ? NULL :
> "auto";
>
> That matches your observations: client_encoding=auto is only used if both
> stdin and stdout are attached to a tty.
>
> I suggest the attached documentation fix.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe