Re: prevent encoding conversion recursive error

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: prevent encoding conversion recursive error
Date: 2005-08-20 23:09:20
Message-ID: 200508202309.j7KN9KX09278@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 14. August 2005 23:48 schrieb Tom Lane:
> > Yeah, but don't we already have some code for that (or, actually, the
> > reverse direction) in initdb? It's probably not perfect, but it'd be
> > a lot better than crashing.
>
> The reverse direction is a lot simpler because we know the set of possible
> output values. I'm not sure how to do the mapping in the direction of the
> OS.

Is there a TODO here?

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