Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> The current code results in failures if any non-latin1 data has to be
>> transmitted from worker to leader, even though the query might not have
>> ever sent that data to the client, and therefore would work fine in
>> non-parallel mode.
> So, I don't think this is true. First, to be clear, there's no
> encoding conversion going on when tuples are sent from worker to
> leader, so that case has no problem of this type at all. This is
> limited to non-tuple protocol messages: errors, notices, and possibly
> notifies.
Okay ...
> 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.
You do have a bug here; please don't argue you don't.
regards, tom lane
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