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Re: Bug in COPY FROM backslash escaping multi-byte chars

John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>

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From: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-02-03T13:38:11Z
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On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 8:08 AM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> While playing with COPY FROM refactorings in another thread, I noticed
> corner case where I think backslash escaping doesn't work correctly.
> Consider the following input:
>
> \么.foo

I've seen multibyte delimiters in the wild, so it's not as outlandish as it
seems. The fix is simple enough, so +1.

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John Naylor
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. Fix backslash-escaping multibyte chars in COPY FROM.