Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?

Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: pgsql@markdilger.com, kleptog@svana.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-04-02T04:49:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Mark Dilger <pgsql@markdilger.com> writes:
> > Refactoring the way these table driven functions work would impact
> > lots of other code.  Just grep for all files #including mb/pg_wchar.h
> > for the list of them.  The list includes interfaces/libpq, and I'm
> > wondering if software that links against postgres might rely on these
> > function prototypes?
> 
> No, we've never exported those with the intent that client code should
> use 'em.  Doing so would require importing non-public headers, and
> anyone who does that can have no grounds for complaining if the headers
> change incompatibly.

I thought PQescapeString() of 8.3 uses mbverify functions to make sure
that user supplied multibyte string is valid.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan