Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> 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

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