Hello, using SQLAlchemy 0.7.3's Inspector, I'm reflecting the columns of a table, and it fails with this trace:
File "./main.py", line 106, in <module> dbmgr.reflect() File "./main.py", line 32, in reflect self.fetch_tables(schema='eg') File "./main.py", line 58, in fetch_tables cols0 = self.inspector.get_columns(t, schema=schema) File "/home/dm/myprojects/Runcible-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/reflection.py", line 230, in get_columns **kw) File "<string>", line 1, in <lambda> File "/home/dm/myprojects/Runcible-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/reflection.py", line 46, in cache ret = fn(self, con, *args, **kw) File "/home/dm/myprojects/Runcible-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/dialects/postgresql/base.py", line 1191, in get_columns rows = c.fetchall() File "/home/dm/myprojects/Runcible-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 2985, in fetchall l = self.process_rows(self._fetchall_impl()) File "/home/dm/myprojects/Runcible-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SQLAlchemy-0.7.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 2952, in _fetchall_impl return self.cursor.fetchall() UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) I have pinned down the cause to be a column's default value which contains a "ü" character (u umlaut). The query SA emits to get the columns should give for that column: attname | format_type | default | attnotnull | attnum | table_oid -----------------+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+------------+--------+----------- min_amount_unit | character varying(16) | 'Stück'::character varying | t | 10 | 43091 Running the query from psql prompt, or from a simple script that uses psycopg2 directly, gives no error. So the problem is SA-related. (The database's encoding is SQLASCII.) Is there a fix or workaround for this? Thanks in advance, - Dirk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sqlalchemy/-/GqvhwQSOXLgJ. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.