Re: preventing encoding conversion while starting up

Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> writes:
> On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 18:57, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The problem is not just there. The real problem is that with this patch
>> installed, it is impossible to report startup errors of any kind,
>> because the client communication mechanism now depends on having working
>> database access. I regard this as a fatal problem :-(

> So the right way would be to always start up in us-ascii (7-bit) and
> re-negotiate encodings later ?

That might be one way out ... but doesn't it mean breaking the wire
protocol? Existing clients aren't likely to know to do that.

It seems like we've collected enough reasons for a protocol change that
one might happen for 7.4. I'd rather not have it happen in 7.3, though,
because we don't have enough time left to address all the issues I'd
like to see addressed...

regards, tom lane