Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?

Mario Weilguni wrote:

> Steps to reproduce:
> create database testdb with encoding='UTF8';
> \c testdb
> create table test(x text);
> insert into test values ('\244'); ==> Is akzepted, even if not UTF8.

This is working as expected, see the remark in
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQ
L-SYNTAX-STRINGS

"It is your responsibility that the byte sequences you create
 are valid characters in the server character set encoding."

Yours,
Laurenz Albe