Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?

Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 14:46 schrieb Albe Laurenz:
> Mario Weilguni wrote:
> > Steps to reproduce:
> > create database testdb with encoding='UTF8';
> > \c testdb
> > create table test(x text);
> > insert into test values ('\244'); ==> Is akzepted, even if not UTF8.
>
> This is working as expected, see the remark in
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQ
> L-SYNTAX-STRINGS
>
> "It is your responsibility that the byte sequences you create
> are valid characters in the server character set encoding."

In that case, pg_dump is doing wrong here and should quote the output. IMO it
cannot be defined as working as expected, when this makes any database dumps
worthless, without any warnings at dump-time.

pg_dump should output \244 itself in that case.

Best regards,
Mario Weilguni