2010/1/2 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> here is patch
>
> I looked at this patch a bit, and I think the real problem with it is
> that it's not multibyte safe. You've copied backend code that is
> allowed to assume it's in a safe encoding (ie, one where multibyte
> characters can't contain non-high-bit-set bytes). This is not okay
> on the client side, see SJIS and similar encodings.
>
this code is taken from pg_dump, so if I understand it well, this is
littl bit different case.
> Where you need to start out is by cloning PQescapeStringConn, which does
> a similar type of transformation correctly even in unsafe encodings.
> I think we'd agreed upthread that libpq should provide
> PQescapeIdentifier functionality anyhow.
>
ok
> Once you've actually read that code, you'll realize that it's okay to
> treat the error result as a warning, which resolves the other point
> of concern. Just print the message and use the result anyway.
ok.
Pavel
>
> regards, tom lane
>