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Re: COPY FROM is not 8bit clean

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@ok-connect.com>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-02-26T23:33:27Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers 
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Can someone explain why this fixes the problem.

Think about a machine where char is signed by default.  Extracting \254
into an int will produce -2, which will not equal \254 returned by getc.

			regards, tom lane