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- <command>COPY</command> always processes data according to the
- current client encoding, even if the data does not pass through
- the client but is read from or written to a file directly by the
- server.
+ Input data is interpreted according to the current client encoding,
+ and output data is encoded in the the current client encoding, even
+ if the data does not pass through the client but is read from or
+ written to a file directly by the server.
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