Developing Npgsql I've encountered the problem described in http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20081223212414.GD3894@merkur.hilbert.loc: a German installation of PostgreSQL seems to respond to an incorrect password with a non-UTF8 encoding of the error messages, even if the startup message contains client_encoding=UTF8.
It seems that the aforementioned thread didn't lead to a fix (either to respect client_encoding even for early messages, or to switch to ASCII English errors for these messages). Am I missing something here or is this the current situation in PG? Any plans for some sort of fix?
I can work around this by using "relaxed" decoding (i.e. not failing on non-UTF8 characters) but this means that error messages are partially or totally garbled...
