Re: Differences in UTF8 between 8.0 and 8.1

From: Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews(at)supernews(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Differences in UTF8 between 8.0 and 8.1
Date: 2005-10-23 05:56:50
Message-ID: slrndlm9h2.g61.andrew+nonews@trinity.supernews.net
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On 2005-10-22, Paul Lindner <lindner(at)inuus(dot)com> wrote:
> I've generated dumps using pg_dump from 8.0 and 8.1. Attempting to
> restore these results in
>
> Invalid UNICODE byte sequence detected near byte ...

What were the exact offending bytes?

> Question:
>
> Does the 8.1 Unicode sanity code accept the full set of characters
> accepted by the 8.0 Unicode sanity code?

No. 8.0 and before accepted a lot of stuff that it should never have, and
failed to accept stuff that it should have.

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