Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix mapping of PostgreSQL encodings to Python encodings.

On fre, 2012-07-06 at 18:53 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > What shall we do about those? Ignore them? Document that if you're sing
> > one of these encodings then PL/Python with Python 2 will be crippled and
> > with Python 3 just won't work?
> 
> We could convert to UTF-8, and use the PostgreSQL functions to convert 
> from UTF-8 to the server encoding. Double conversion might be slow, but 
> I think it would be better than failing. 

Actually, we already do the other direction that way
(PLyUnicode_FromStringAndSize) , so maybe it would be more consistent to
always use this.

I would hesitate to use this as a kind of fallback, because then we
would sometimes be using PostgreSQL's recoding tables and sometimes
Python's recoding tables, which could became confusing.