Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> writes:
> Indeed, reverting might be the way to go then (without waiting for more 17
> behavior reports).
I have an idea that might salvage something from what we've just
been doing. The biggest single problem with the old behavior,
AIUI, was the possibility of sending back encoding-corrupt names
in connection failure reports. How about something like:
* Don't truncate the names on sight (so we keep 562bee0fc1).
* Truncate the names at NAMEDATALEN-1 just before catalog lookup
(this restores the old lookup behavior, solving the current report).
* In lookup-failure messages, be sure to report the un-truncated
name (avoiding the bad-encoding problem).
* Copy the correctly-truncated names from the catalog to any
persistent storage such as MyProcPort, so that those are used
for all post-connection purposes.
regards, tom lane