Bruce, et al, given the thread partially quoted below would this warrant a TODO item "improve communication of encoding between client and server regarding early startup messages" ? A very usable band-aid for 8.4 - short of a proper fix - would be the minimal-invasive sending of messages in 7-bit English until server_encoding can be retrieved by the client by current means. Thanks, Karsten On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 08:33:56PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Subject: Re: encoding of PostgreSQL messages > User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 > > On Wednesday 31 December 2008 20:23:47 Tom Lane wrote: > > > The proper fix is probably to include the client encoding in the > > > connection startup message. > > > > What of errors occurring before such an option could be applied? > > Connection errors are handled by the client, which knows the client encoding. > If the setting of the client encoding would be one of the first things to be > done on the server side, you would only have a handful of possible error > conditions left (e.g., setlocale failed, out of memory). You could choose to > report those in plain ASCII or send a special error code that the client can > resolve. Although I guess no one could fault us if "could not set language" > is reported not translated. ;-) > > > I think that ultimately it's necessary to accept that there will be some > > window during connection startup where sending plain ASCII (English) > > messages is the best recourse. > > Ultimately yes. But we currently handle the client encoding quite late in the > startup sequence so that many connection startup failure messages that are of > interest to normal users would likely be affected. So moving the client > encoding handling to the earliest possible phase would still be desirable. > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
