Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> Can someone comment on this? > >> Looks like a horrible hack to me. Recoding stuff to the client encoding >> in the server outside the existing recoding mechanism looks pretty evil >> to me. Plus, it does not address the problem of what happens to >> messages sent before this, it just moves the point of "before" a bit >> earlier for some special cases. > >> I think we have discussed more proper solutions earlier in this thread. >> IMO the best approach would be for the client to include the client >> encoding in the startup package. > > Huh? Clients already do that (or at least some are capable of it, > including libpq). Yes the psqlodbc driver has done it because protocol 3 allowed it from the first. > The hard problems are (1) there's still a "before", Yes but isn't it an improvement that properly localized password error or no database error etc can be seen? Currently I see unreadable error messages for those cases via psqlodbc driver. The attatched patch in my previous posting is an example to solve the problem. regards, Hirosh Inoue -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
