Re: BUG #5345: non-administrator users cannot create databases with special encoding

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kovács Zoltán <kovzol(at)particio(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5345: non-administrator users cannot create databases with special encoding
Date: 2010-02-25 14:38:46
Message-ID: 2708.1267108726@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?UTF-8?B?S292w6FjcyBab2x0w6Fu?= <kovzol(at)particio(dot)com> writes:
> What can happen if I use an unsafe combination? Can the backend unexpectedly
> die? Can this cause data corruption?

Inconsistent ordering results and index corruption can be expected at
minimum. I'm not sure about actual crashes. Try looking through
the pgsql-bugs archives for related problem reports from PG versions
that didn't have the locale compatibility checks.

regards, tom lane

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