Re: Encoding problems with "COMMENT ON DATABASE .." causing pg_restore (and pg_upgrade) to fail

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jan Lentfer <jan(dot)lentfer(at)web(dot)de>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Encoding problems with "COMMENT ON DATABASE .." causing pg_restore (and pg_upgrade) to fail
Date: 2016-02-16 19:36:24
Message-ID: 56C37A38.6060007@BlueTreble.com
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On 2/16/16 10:38 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I see no one else commented on this. We have trouble keeping the global
> system catalogs consistent when databases in the same cluster use
> different encodings. I am not sure how we could improve this.

Could we force the global catalogs to always be accessed via UTF8, at
least for modification? I suspect that would mean changing encodings on
the fly in the appropriate command functions (such as what's listed in
src/include/commands/user.h).
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Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
Experts in Analytics, Data Architecture and PostgreSQL
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