Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 05:20:06PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ... However, I think there's a case to be
>> made for adding the additional pg_verify_mbstr() calls in the back
>> branches. We've been promising since around 8.3 that invalidly encoded
>> data can't get into a database, and it's disturbing to find that there
>> are leaks in that.
> I had a dark corner of an app break from the 8.4-vintage change to make
> E'abc\000def'::text raise an error rather than truncate the string. The old
> behavior was clearly wrong, but I was still glad the change arrived in a major
> release; the truncation happened to be harmless for that app. Adding
> pg_verify_mbstr() calls creates a similar situation.
Since I'm not hearing anybody else argue for a back-patch, I've committed
this in HEAD only.
regards, tom lane
