Re: nls and server log

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: nls and server log
Date: 2014-12-30 01:40:12
Message-ID: 54A2027C.7070708@2ndquadrant.com
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On 12/30/2014 06:39 AM, Jim Nasby wrote:
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>
> How much of this issue is caused by trying to machine-parse log files?
> Is a better option to improve that case, possibly doing something like
> including a field in each line that tells you the encoding for that entry?

That'd be absolutely ghastly. You couldn't just view the logs with
'less' or a text editor if your logs had mixed encodings, you'd need
some kind of special PostgreSQL log viewer tool.

Why would we possibly do that when we could just emit utf-8 instead?

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