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Re: Proposal: tighten validation for legacy EUC encodings or document that accepted byte sequences may be unconvertible to UTF8

Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> — 2026-05-11T01:40:13Z

>>  If so, tightening up the validation may break such that uses.
> 
> I agree. What about introducing an extra GUC which allows users to specify
> verification logic? In fact, I have implemented this patch.
> 
> ```
> SHOW encoding_validation;
> -- default behaviour
> SET encoding_validation = 'native';
> -- enforce Write to be fully compatible with Read
> SET encoding_validation = 'read_compatible';

-1 for using GUC. These settings may vary depending on the encoding.

Regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
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