Re: [HACKERS] Optional message to user when terminating/cancellingbackend

> On 12 Aug 2018, at 07:42, Pavel Stehule  wrote:
> 2018-08-12 0:17 GMT+02:00 Daniel Gustafsson >:
> > On 6 Aug 2018, at 09:47, Heikki Linnakangas > wrote:

> > What happens if the message contains non-ASCII characters, and the sending backend is connected to database that uses a different encoding than the backend being signaled?
> 
> In the current state of the patch, instead of the message you get:
> 
>     FATAL: character with byte sequence 0xe3 0x82 0xbd in encoding "UTF8" has
>            no equivalent in encoding “ISO_8859_5"
> 
> Where this code fails? Isn't somewhere upper where string literals are translated? Then this message is ok.

This happens for example when a UTF-8 backend sends a message with japanese
characters to a backend using ISO_8859_5.  So the code works as expected, but
it’s not a very good user experience.

cheers ./daniel