Re: BUG #5801: characters not encoded properly for column names

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Marc Cousin <cousinmarc(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2010/12/27 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Marc Cousin <cousinmarc(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> With the Windows server :
>>> test=# SET client_encoding TO 'win1252';
>>> SET
>>
>> I have a vague recollection that the argument to SET client_encoding
>> isn't validated on Windows, and if you enter a value that it doesn't
>> like it simply silently doesn't work.  Am I wrong?  What happens if
>> you do:
>>
>> SET client_encoding TO
>> 'some_really_long_string_that_is_almost_certainly_not_a_valid_encoding';
>
> Here it is…
>
> postgres=# SET client_encoding TO 'foo';
> ERROR:  invalid value for parameter "client_encoding": "foo"
>
> (It does the same with your really long string by the way :) )
>
> Seems validated to me ?

Hrm, OK. Well, you just used up my one guess. :-(

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