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

> On 6 Aug 2018, at 09:47, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> Has there been any consideration to encodings?

Thats a good point, no =/

> 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"

Thats clearly not good enough, but I’m not entirely sure what would be the best
way forward.  Restrict messages to only be in SQL_ASCII?  Store the encoding of
the message and check the encoding of the receiving backend before issuing it
for a valid conversion, falling back to no message in case there is none?
Neither seems terribly appealing, do you have any better suggestions?

cheers ./daniel