Re: libpq5 8.3 breaks 8.2 compatibility with encodings

From: Martin Pitt <martin(at)piware(dot)de>
To: PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: libpq5 8.3 breaks 8.2 compatibility with encodings
Date: 2007-10-12 17:38:21
Message-ID: 20071012173821.GM5911@piware.de
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Hi,

Tom Lane [2007-10-12 13:23 -0400]:
> I'm becoming more and more convinced that this is initdb's bug not
> libpq's. The problem stems from initdb using libpq's functions and
> assuming that its numbers match up with pg_wchar.h. But note that
> pg_wchar.h is not exported by libpq.

Sounds convincing. The hard part is that this then also a bug in 8.2's
initdb, which cannot be changed, so at least for this case we'll need
a workaround.

Martin

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