Re: Debian bug report about multibyte in 7.3.3

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 17:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > Does anyone know this bug report:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204000
>
> The bug reporter is in error to be claiming he is running 7.3.3, because
> the assert() in question is at line 334 not 331 in 7.3.3. He may have
> 7.3.3 client libraries, but he must be talking to a server version
> between 7.3 and 7.3.2.

This is curious because the version numbers are automatically generated
by reportbug and he gives no hint that he is talking to a different
machine.

However I verified that the assertion is at line 334 in the source code
that the package was compiled from.

> I believe the bug probably is the same one reported/fixed here:
>
> 2003-04-20 13:37 tgl
>
> * src/backend/regex/regcomp.c (REL7_3_STABLE): Fix char-vs-pg_wchar
> confusion in p_ere(), per failure report from Tom O'Dowd. This fix
> is not relevant to CVS tip anymore, but we should fix it in 7.3.*.
>
> which would mean that it is indeed fixed in 7.3.3. I suppose the reason
> Oliver never forwarded this report is he couldn't duplicate it...

It's more because I was away at the time fetching my mother-in-law from
Israel, so this bug never got dealt with at all :-( But I do have
problems with these character set bugs, since it took a long time to
find a way to see these characters correctly.

I can confirm it does not happen in 7.4beta4

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