Thread: ERROR: conversion between UNICODE and LATIN1 is not supported

Hello,

I keep getting
  ERROR:  conversion between UNICODE and LATIN1 is not supported

when connecting from pgadmin3 beta 2 (checked out from CVS a little time
ago) to rather new checkout of PostgreSQL's CVS.

Is this a known problem/limitation?

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Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark

Troels Arvin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I keep getting
>   ERROR:  conversion between UNICODE and LATIN1 is not supported
>
> when connecting from pgadmin3 beta 2 (checked out from CVS a little time
> ago) to rather new checkout of PostgreSQL's CVS.
>
> Is this a known problem/limitation?

No. When does it fail? Enable sql logging for that.
We just had some changes in pgConn.cpp when connecting, but old
behaviour should have been preserved.

Regards,
Andreas

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:46:04 +0000, Andreas Pflug wrote:

> When does it fail? Enable sql logging for that.

LOG:  connection received: host=127.0.0.1 port=36036
LOG:  connection authorized: user=troels database=template1
LOG:  statement: SELECT oid, pg_encoding_to_char(encoding) AS encoding, datlastsysoid
          FROM pg_database WHERE datname='template1'
LOG:  statement: set client_encoding to 'UNICODE'
ERROR:  conversion between UNICODE and LATIN1 is not supported

Output of "env | grep LANG":
LANG=en_US.iso88591

I have previously used pgadmin3 on this system with the same LANG setting
without problems, but that was with PostgreSQL 7.4.

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Greetings from Troels Arvin, Copenhagen, Denmark

Troels Arvin wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:46:04 +0000, Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
>
>>When does it fail? Enable sql logging for that.
>
>
> LOG:  connection received: host=127.0.0.1 port=36036
> LOG:  connection authorized: user=troels database=template1
> LOG:  statement: SELECT oid, pg_encoding_to_char(encoding) AS encoding, datlastsysoid
>           FROM pg_database WHERE datname='template1'
> LOG:  statement: set client_encoding to 'UNICODE'
> ERROR:  conversion between UNICODE and LATIN1 is not supported
>
> Output of "env | grep LANG":
> LANG=en_US.iso88591
>
> I have previously used pgadmin3 on this system with the same LANG setting
> without problems, but that was with PostgreSQL 7.4.

You're probably missing the appropriate conversions iso_8859_1_to_utf_8
and utf_8_to_iso_8859_1 (i.e. you probably dropped them). On a default
pgsql8, UNICODE<->LATIN1 is supported by default.

Regards,
Andreas