Re: BUG #15772: Some messages in log files are in ANSI encoding while server encoding is UTF8

Could it be the issue of not all messages taking lc_messages setting into
account?
i.e. in my case all messeges should be in ANSI (Wndows-1251) instead of
UTF-8.

Regards,
Eugene

чт, 18 апр. 2019 г. в 19:26, Eugene Podshivalov <yaugenka(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> I guess that the issue is related to this setting in the postgresql.conf
> file:
> lc_messages = 'Russian_Russia.1251' # locale for system
> error message
>
> I tried chaning it to 'en_US.UTF-8' and all new message in the log file
> are in English and look good regardless of whether I view it in UTF-8 or
> ANSI encoding.
>
> I don't know what ANSI stands for either but it goes first in the list of
> encodings in notepad++ Encodings menu.
> I guess it refers to Windows-1251 in my case.
>
> The English variant of the messed up message in the UTF8 section of the
> screenshot above is
> LOG: database system was shut down at ...
> LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
>
> All my databases have encoding=UTF8, collate=Russian_Russia.1251,
> ctype=Russian_Russia.1251
>
> Regards,
> Eugene
>
> чт, 18 апр. 2019 г. в 19:20, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> > I suppose you have databases with the single-byte encoding amidst your
>> > UTF8 ones. AFAIK the log file registers the log entries in the same
>> > encoding that the database uses. Different databases can use different
>> > encodings.
>>
>> > That's pretty broken, but it's how it is.
>>
>> Yeah, and it's not easy to improve on. If we tried to convert all
>> log messages to the same encoding, which one would that be?
>> (Please, no nonsense about UTF8 being a universal solution.
>> The Japanese don't think so, for instance.)
>>
>> Also, what do you do if you get an encoding conversion failure?
>>
>> That's even before you get into implementation-dependent problems,
>> like what to do early in process startup before the encoding
>> conversion machinery is operational.
>>
>> A more realistic idea might be to have separate log files for
>> different encodings, though that has a bunch of management issues
>> to solve as well.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
>