Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> In helping someome on IRC it has become apparent that unless I am
> mistaken "COPY foo from 'filename'" is reading the file according to the
> client encoding.

> Is that the expected behaviour?

Yes, it is. Not sure if it's adequately documented.

regards, tom lane

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