Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> When the conversion function doesn't work, any attempt to send any text
> to the client will fail.
Ah, now I remember: we arranged to short-circuit translation of the
error message when we were in this situation. But it will still get
passed through the encoding converter (rather uselessly, if it's all
ASCII). I wonder how ugly it would be to try to suppress encoding
conversion as well?
regards, tom lane