Re: UTF8 conversion differences from v8.1.3 to v8.1.4

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Eric Faulhaber <ecf(at)goldencode(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UTF8 conversion differences from v8.1.3 to v8.1.4
Date: 2006-07-19 14:03:34
Message-ID: 24861.1153317814@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> Looking at the code it doesn't appear that there are too many places
> that are problematic.

Really?

The killer problem is that all datatype I/O goes through C strings.
Fixing this therefore would require breaking every user-defined
datatype on the planet.

regards, tom lane

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