Re: PostgreSQL+ Beta bug?

Bo?ena Potempa wrote:
>
> [..]
> >Hmm the difference may come from (non-)multibyte mode.
>
> I don't think so. My PostgreSQL on Linux installation is standard,
> without support for multibyte characters, without support for
> any national characterset and sorting. Just installed
> 'as is' on the fresh RedHat 7.3.

Isn't your PostgreSQL on Windows NT with multibyte suppoort ?
My environment is with multibyte support and so it doesn't
support non-null-terminated string.

> >> Now I am not sure which behaviour is correct (and planned
> >> by PostgreSQL developers).
> >
> >As far as I see PostgreSQL couldn't handle non-null-terminated
> >strings correctly.
>
> OK. But I think, that even if some earlier versions of PostgreSQL
> do not support 0s in strings then later versions will support them.
> So ODBC driver should not cut strings containing zeroes, but

According to an ODBC related document, the behavior of ODBC
functions in such case is undefined and it is driver-specific
if a driver handles this correctly.

> insert/read data entirely making usage of provided length.
> Is it implemented like that?

No and how can I implement it ?
Must I convert '\0' to "|| chr(0) ||" where there's no
guarantee that it works ?

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
http://w2422.nsk.ne.jp/~inoue/