I wrote:
> We've known about this and related issues with gettext for some time,
> but a bulletproof solution isn't clear. For the moment all you can
> do is be real careful about making your locale settings match up.
I forgot to mention that it works fine if the server is told the client
encoding actually being used:
postgres=# \encoding iso8859-1
postgres=# \l
Liste der Datenbanken
Name | Eigent�mer | Kodierung
------------+------------+-----------
postgres | tgl | UTF8
regression | tgl | SQL_ASCII
template0 | tgl | UTF8
template1 | tgl | UTF8
(4 Zeilen)
postgres=# \d
Keine Relationen gefunden
postgres=#
A possible solution therefore is to have psql or libpq drive the
client_encoding off the client's locale environment instead of letting
it default to equal the server_encoding. But I'm not sure what
downsides that would have, and in any case it's not entirely clear that
we can always derive the correct Postgres encoding name from the
system's locale info.
regards, tom lane