Re: invalid UTF-8 via pl/perl

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-01-03T20:17:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> There are two issues with this patch. First, how far if at all should it 
> be backpatched? All the way, or 8.3, where we tightened the encoding 
> rules, or not at all?

Forgot to mention --- I'm not in favor of backpatching.  First because
tightening encoding verification has been a process over multiple
releases; it's not a bug fix in the normal sense of the word, and might
break things that people had been doing without trouble.  Second because
I think we'll have to change pg_verifymbstr's API, and that's not
something to back-patch if we can avoid it.

			regards, tom lane