newrelic/rpm — pull request #117 by burke (2013-04-29 17:06:14+00:00)
Title: Handle batch submission of queries with incompatible encodings

We've experienced an error where a query with a BLOB, encoded as
ASCII-8BIT is concatenated to a UTF-8 query (with UTF-8 multibyte
characters present). This is an invalid conversion and raises an
EncodingError. This commit rescues that error and forcibly converts
the second query to the first's encoding.

This may or may not be a complete solution. I haven't taken the time to understand RPM's architecture enough to figure out how to test this adequately.

It seems odd to me that this would cause problems. It doesn't seem like it should be an uncommon case. Did we do something wrong?