2018-08-12 0:17 GMT+02:00 Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se>: > > On 6 Aug 2018, at 09:47, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote: > > > > Has there been any consideration to encodings? > > Thats a good point, no =/ > > > What happens if the message contains non-ASCII characters, and the > sending backend is connected to database that uses a different encoding > than the backend being signaled? > > In the current state of the patch, instead of the message you get: > > FATAL: character with byte sequence 0xe3 0x82 0xbd in encoding "UTF8" > has > no equivalent in encoding “ISO_8859_5" >
Where this code fails? Isn't somewhere upper where string literals are translated? Then this message is ok. > > Thats clearly not good enough, but I’m not entirely sure what would be the > best > way forward. Restrict messages to only be in SQL_ASCII? Store the > encoding of > the message and check the encoding of the receiving backend before issuing > it > for a valid conversion, falling back to no message in case there is none? > Neither seems terribly appealing, do you have any better suggestions? > The client<->server encoding translation should do this work no? Regards Pavel > cheers ./daniel