Re: [HACKERS] Optional message to user when terminating/cancelling backend

2018-08-12 10:29 GMT+02:00 Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>:

> > On 12 Aug 2018, at 07:42, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2018-08-12 0:17 GMT+02:00 Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se <mailto:
> daniel@yesql.se>>:
> > > On 6 Aug 2018, at 09:47, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi <mailto:
> hlinnaka@iki.fi>> wrote:
>
> > > What happens if the message contains non-ASCII characters, and the
> sending backend is connected to database that uses a different encoding
> than the backend being signaled?
> >
> > In the current state of the patch, instead of the message you get:
> >
> >     FATAL: character with byte sequence 0xe3 0x82 0xbd in encoding
> "UTF8" has
> >            no equivalent in encoding “ISO_8859_5"
> >
> > Where this code fails? Isn't somewhere upper where string literals are
> translated? Then this message is ok.
>
> This happens for example when a UTF-8 backend sends a message with japanese
> characters to a backend using ISO_8859_5.  So the code works as expected,
> but
> it’s not a very good user experience.
>

It is same like any other using of string literal.

Personally, I don't think so these functions should be a exception.

Pavel


> cheers ./daniel