Re: utf8 encoding problem with plperlu

Still trying to figure this out, still confused, but like most frustrating
programming problems, I think I may be looking in the wrong place for the
source of this error. Perhaps.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Ronald Peterson <ron(at)hub(dot)yellowbank(dot)com> writes:
> > This does work for strings that don't contain consecutive zeroes. I'm
> not
> > really passing the string to PostgreSQL, but to Net::LDAP, but it must
> hit
> > PostgreSQL anyway? Active Directory requires this encoding, so I'm not
> > sure what to do here.
>
> Hm, well, the concrete example you showed involved passing the string to
> elog(), which definitely will complain if what it's fed isn't legal data
> according to the database encoding; as would any other attempt to push
> data into the Postgres server environment. I don't see why operations
> that are strictly within Perl would have a problem, though.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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