From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Martin Pitt <martin(at)piware(dot)de> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: libpq5 8.3 breaks 8.2 compatibility with encodings |
Date: | 2007-10-12 16:02:44 |
Message-ID: | 28378.1192204964@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Martin Pitt <martin(at)piware(dot)de> writes:
> However, if I use 8.2 programs with the 8.3 library, things start to
> become weird:
> $ # kill postgres instance
> $ rm -rf /tmp/x; LC_ALL=3Den_US.UTF-8 /usr/lib/postgresql/8.2/bin/initdb =
> --encoding UTF8 -D /tmp/x
Does anything other than initdb get weird?
For the most part I believe it's the case that libpq's idea of the enum
values is independent of the backend's. I think the issue here is that
initdb is (mis) using libpq's pg_char_to_encoding, etc, and combining
those functions with its own idea of the meanings of the enum values.
Maybe we should stop exporting pg_char_to_encoding and so on from libpq,
though I wonder if that would break any clients.
regards, tom lane
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