Re: character encoding in StartupMessage

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-02-28T15:44:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> However, my personal preference is to treat the name of the database as
> a "bunch of bits" ie, don't consider it encoded at all.

That's essentially what we are doing as far as the StartupMessage is
concerned.  Doesn't really solve the problem of post-startup accesses to
the shared catalogs, however.

			regards, tom lane