Re: Client Messages

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Heikki Linnakangas's message of jue ene 26 15:58:58 -0300 2012:
>> On 26.01.2012 17:31, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> > The idea that occurs to me is to have the code that uses the GUC do a
>> > verify_mbstr(noerror) on it, and silently ignore it if it doesn't pass
>> > (maybe with a LOG message).  This would have to be documented of course,
>> > but it seems better than the potential consequences of trying to send a
>> > wrongly-encoded string.
>>
>> Hmm, fine with me. It would be nice to plug the hole that these bogus
>> characters can leak elsewhere into the system through current_setting,
>> though. Perhaps we could put the verify_mbstr() call somewhere in guc.c,
>> to forbid incorrectly encoded characters from being stored in the guc
>> variable in the first place.
>
> This patch is listed as "Needs review" but that seems to be wrong --
> it's "waiting on author", I think.

Yes. I marked the patch as "waiting on author".

>  Do we have an updated patch?  Fujii?

No. I believe that the author Jim will submit the updated version.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
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