Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Force strings passed to and from plperl to be in UTF8 encoding.

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Amit Khandekar <amit.khandekar@enterprisedb.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-10-06T16:19:23Z

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Force strings passed to and from plperl to be in UTF8 encoding.
- 50d89d422f9c 9.1.0 cited

On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Robert Haas wrote:

>> The open commitfest? Even if its an "important" bug fix that should be
>> backpatched?
> 
> Considering that the issue appears to have been ignored from
> mid-February until early October, I don't see why it should now get to
> jump to the head of the queue.  Other people may have different
> opinions, of course.

Proper encoding of text data to and from Perl is more important every day, as it's used for more and more uses beyond ASCII. I think it's important to backport such issues modulo behavioral changes.

Best,

David