At Fri, 18 Dec 2020 10:18:45 +0900, Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote in > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 03:13:25PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > > On second thought, I'm going to retract this patch. The docs[1] say: > > > > "You can, if you like, add comments to a history file to record your > > own notes about how and why this particular timeline was created. Such > > comments will be especially valuable when you have a thicket of > > different timelines as a result of experimentation." > > This actually rings a bell. Now that I think about it, I have seen in > the past Japanese customers making use of Japanese characters in > history files. I am adding Fujii-san and Horiguchi-san in CC for more > details as I recall that they were involved in such things, with > pg_rman coming first into mind. (No idea about French users.)
Sorry, my faint memory says that something like that happened on backup label but I don't recall that clearly. pg_basebackup can set the LABEL field in the file and the string fed to the command's "-l" option is copied to there as-is (that is, getting no conversion), as far as client encoding is valid as server encoding. (since database encoding of walsender is always SQL_ASCII) I'm not sure it is the expected behavior. regards. -- Kyotaro Horiguchi NTT Open Source Software Center
