Re: encoding of PostgreSQL messages

Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:45:17PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > Hmm, isn't client_encoding reported in the startup packet sent by the
> > server, after auth?
>
> That would not quite be enough -- I am talking about
> messages reported *during* auth, say
>
>     FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
> or
>
>     fe_sendauth: no password supplied
>
> both of which, in other locales, may contain non-ASCII characters.

Those are sent in the server encoding IIRC (which admittedly you don't
have a way to know, at that point.)

And I'm now wondering if we should delay initializing the translation
stuff until after client_encoding has been reported.

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