Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Mario Weilguni *EXTERN* <mweilguni(at)sime(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?
Date: 2007-03-13 15:38:01
Message-ID: 45F6C559.7060909@commandprompt.com
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Albe Laurenz wrote:
>> A fix could be either that the server checks escape sequences for
>> validity
>>
>
> This strikes me as essential. If the db has a certain encoding ISTM we
> are promising that all the text data is valid for that encoding.
>
> The question in my mind is how we help people to recover from the fact
> that we haven't done that.

Is this any different than the issues of moving 8.0.x to 8.1 UTF8? Where
we had to use iconv?

Joshua D. Drake

>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>
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