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Server Encoding and Client Encoding

Learn what is available for encoding in PostgreSQL.

Encoding

An encoding is a particular representation of characters in bits and bytes. In the ASCII encoding, the letter A is encoded as the 7-bits byte 1000001, 65 in decimal, or 41 in hexadecimal. All those numbers are going to be written the same way on disk, and the letter A too.

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