--- lib/A3C/SQL.pm	2008/06/20 22:37:33	217
+++ lib/A3C/SQL.pm	2008/06/21 11:01:35	218
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 	encoding => 'UTF-8',
   });
 
+Mungling with C<encoding> is rearly needed, especially if using recent C<DBD::Pg> as driver.
+
 =head2 sth
 
 Execute query and return statement handle. Ususally you don't have to call this manually.
@@ -117,8 +119,16 @@
 	my $type = ref($self) or die "$self is not an object";
 	my $name = $AUTOLOAD;
 	$name =~ s/.*://;
-	Jifty->log->error("SQL: $name doesn't exist") unless defined($self->{$name});
-	return decode( $self->{__encoding}, $self->{$name} );
+	my $v = $self->{$name};
+	Jifty->log->error("SQL: $name doesn't exist") unless defined $v;
+	if ( ! Encode::is_utf8( $v ) ) {
+		eval { $v = decode( $self->{__encoding}, $self->{$name} ) };
+		if ( $@ ) {
+			warn "## column $name can't decode ",dump( $self->{$name} );
+			$v = $self->{$name};
+		}
+	}
+	return $v;
 }
 
 sub DESTROY {}