Re: [HACKERS] fatal copy in/out error (6.5.3)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Robinson <robinson(at)netrinsics(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] fatal copy in/out error (6.5.3)
Date: 2000-01-24 17:34:19
Message-ID: 25765.948735259@sss.pgh.pa.us
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>> This looks to me like something is deciding that \217 must be the
>> start of a 3-byte multibyte character... in which case, it should have
>> appeared that way in your database, I think.

> That would be very weird, if true. \217 is certainly not the beginning of
> a UTF-8 three-byte sequence, and EUC doesn't have three-byte codes.

Hmm. And I don't suppose it's real likely that \217 is a one-byte code
and \210 starts a two-byte code?

I'm out of my depth here --- it seems this is almost certainly a
MULTIBYTE issue, but I know very little about MULTIBYTE. I'm going
to punt and hope some of our MULTIBYTE experts pick it up.

regards, tom lane

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