Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com, pgsql(at)markdilger(dot)com, all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?
Date: 2007-04-05 14:47:18
Message-ID: 27120.1175784438@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> I think the problem is that most encodings do not have the concept of a
> code point anyway, so implementing it for them is fairly useless.

Yeah. I'm beginning to think that the right thing to do is

(a) make chr/ascii do the same thing as Oracle (ie, as in the discussed
patch)

(b) make a different pair of functions that translate Unicode code
points to/from the current database encoding.

regards, tom lane

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