Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?

Added to TODO:

* Fix cases where invalid byte encodings are accepted by the database,
but throw an error on SELECT

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00767.php

Is anyone working on fixing this bug?

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Mario Weilguni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a problem with a database, I can dump the database to a file, but
> restoration fails, happens with 8.1.4.
>
> 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.
>
> pg_dump testdb -f testdb.dump -Fc
> pg_restore -f testdb.dump -d testdb => fails with an error:
> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa4
>
> The problem itself comes from a CSV file, which is imported with \copy without
> proper quoting (so I have to fix this anyway), but I still think this is an
> error, making restoration very complicated in such cases...
>
> Or am I doing something completly wrong here?
>
> Best regards,
> Mario Weilguni
>
>
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