Re: parallel workers and client encoding

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Second, if you can't convert an error or notice message (or possibly a
>> notify message) from the server encoding to the client coding, you are
>> definitely going to fail, with or without parallel query, because that
>> conversion has to be done at some stage anyway.
>
> Only if the message gets sent to the client, which it might never be;
> for example because the query is inside a plpgsql exception block that
> traps the error.

Hmm... yeah, OK, that's another case.

> You do have a bug here; please don't argue you don't.

I just said it was a bug in my previous post, so I think it is clear
that I am not arguing that.

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