Fix UnicodeDecodeError when postgres is not configured in english (#4253)

This is a bit of a half-assed effort at fixing https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4252. Fundamentally the right answer is to drop support for Python 2.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/storage/_base.py b/synapse/storage/_base.py
index d9d0255d0b..38e7d26365 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/_base.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/_base.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ from synapse.api.errors import StoreError
 from synapse.storage.engines import PostgresEngine
 from synapse.util.caches.descriptors import Cache
 from synapse.util.logcontext import LoggingContext, PreserveLoggingContext
+from synapse.util.stringutils import exception_to_unicode
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -249,32 +250,32 @@ class SQLBaseStore(object):
                 except self.database_engine.module.OperationalError as e:
                     # This can happen if the database disappears mid
                     # transaction.
-                    logger.warn(
+                    logger.warning(
                         "[TXN OPERROR] {%s} %s %d/%d",
-                        name, e, i, N
+                        name, exception_to_unicode(e), i, N
                     )
                     if i < N:
                         i += 1
                         try:
                             conn.rollback()
                         except self.database_engine.module.Error as e1:
-                            logger.warn(
+                            logger.warning(
                                 "[TXN EROLL] {%s} %s",
-                                name, e1,
+                                name, exception_to_unicode(e1),
                             )
                         continue
                     raise
                 except self.database_engine.module.DatabaseError as e:
                     if self.database_engine.is_deadlock(e):
-                        logger.warn("[TXN DEADLOCK] {%s} %d/%d", name, i, N)
+                        logger.warning("[TXN DEADLOCK] {%s} %d/%d", name, i, N)
                         if i < N:
                             i += 1
                             try:
                                 conn.rollback()
                             except self.database_engine.module.Error as e1:
-                                logger.warn(
+                                logger.warning(
                                     "[TXN EROLL] {%s} %s",
-                                    name, e1,
+                                    name, exception_to_unicode(e1),
                                 )
                             continue
                     raise