Karsten Hilbert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:45:17PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Hmm, isn't client_encoding reported in the startup packet sent by the > > server, after auth? > > That would not quite be enough -- I am talking about > messages reported *during* auth, say > > FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres" > > or > > fe_sendauth: no password supplied > > both of which, in other locales, may contain non-ASCII characters. Those are sent in the server encoding IIRC (which admittedly you don't have a way to know, at that point.) And I'm now wondering if we should delay initializing the translation stuff until after client_encoding has been reported. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
