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

On 05/07/12 23:30, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tor, 2012-07-05 at 22:53 +0200, Jan Urbański wrote:
>> The problem is that PLyUnicode_Bytes is (via an ifdef) used as
>> PyString_ToString on Python3, which means that there are numerous call
>> sites and new ones might appear in any moment. I'm not that keen on
>> invoking the traceback machinery on low-level encoding errors.
>
> Why not?

Because it can lead to recursion errors, like the one this patch was 
supposed to fix. The traceback machinery calls into the encoding 
functions, because it converts Python strings (like function names) into 
C strings.