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Werk #14556: mk_postgres: support Latin-1 and SQL_ASCII server encodings

Component Checks & agents
Title mk_postgres: support Latin-1 and SQL_ASCII server encodings
Date Sep 5, 2022
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.2.0b1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Ultimate MT
2.1.0p29 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

Previously, any Postgresgl server with encoding Latin-1 or SQL_ASCII would be rejected by the agent mk_postgres.py. This is because some of the SQL queries sent by the agent contained utf-8 only characters. With this werk, the agent supports these encodings.

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