Re: Errors in our encoding conversion tables

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Errors in our encoding conversion tables
Date: 2015-11-27 16:01:36
Message-ID: 17226.1448640096@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> writes:
> I agree with your proposed fix, the only thing that makes me feel uncomfortable
> is that you get error messages like:
> ERROR: character with byte sequence 0x96 in encoding "WIN1250" has no equivalent in encoding "MULE_INTERNAL"

Hm, yeah. It's pretty silly that this code uses a double conversion when
it has a table that would work fine for a direct conversion, anyway. But
I think improving that is a separate question, especially since the above
behavior occurred already for a few code points.

regards, tom lane

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