Re: invalid UTF-8 via pl/perl

David E. Wheeler wrote:
>> Second, It produces errors like this:
>>
>> andrew=# select 'a' || invalid_utf_seq() || 'b';
>> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xd0
>> HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not
>> match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by
>> "client_encoding".
>> CONTEXT: PL/Perl function "invalid_utf_seq"
>> andrew=#
>>
>>
>> That hint seems rather misleading. I'm not sure what we can do about it though. If we set the noError param on pg_verifymbstr() we would miss the error message that actually identified the bad data, so that doesn't seem like a good plan.
>>
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> I'm sure I'm just revealing my ignorance here, but how is the hint misleading?
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The string that causes the trouble does not come from the client and has
nothing to do with client_encoding.

cheers

andrew