On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 18:57, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> > Why can't we just open the listening socket _after_ the database has
> > completed starting up phase ?
>
> The problem is not just there. The real problem is that with this patch
> installed, it is impossible to report startup errors of any kind,
> because the client communication mechanism now depends on having working
> database access. I regard this as a fatal problem :-(
So the right way would be to always start up in us-ascii (7-bit) and
re-negotiate encodings later ?
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Hannu