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diff --git a/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/Connection.java b/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/Connection.java
index b11b5fde3c..4f6aec722c 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/Connection.java
+++ b/src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/Connection.java
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import org.postgresql.util.*;
import org.postgresql.core.*;
/**
- * $Id: Connection.java,v 1.30 2001/10/09 20:47:35 barry Exp $
+ * $Id: Connection.java,v 1.31 2001/10/16 20:05:22 barry Exp $
*
* This abstract class is used by org.postgresql.Driver to open either the JDBC1 or
* JDBC2 versions of the Connection class.
@@ -262,6 +262,14 @@ public abstract class Connection
// otherwise it's hardcoded to 'SQL_ASCII'.
// If the backend doesn't know about multibyte we can't assume anything about the encoding
// used, so we denote this with 'UNKNOWN'.
+ //Note: begining with 7.2 we should be using pg_client_encoding() which
+ //is new in 7.2. However it isn't easy to conditionally call this new
+ //function, since we don't yet have the information as to what server
+ //version we are talking to. Thus we will continue to call
+ //getdatabaseencoding() until we drop support for 7.1 and older versions
+ //or until someone comes up with a conditional way to run one or
+ //the other function depending on server version that doesn't require
+ //two round trips to the server per connection
final String encodingQuery =
"case when pg_encoding_to_char(1) = 'SQL_ASCII' then 'UNKNOWN' else getdatabaseencoding() end";