> D. Hageman writes:
>
> > The postgresql interactive terminal will dump core on any script that is
> > run via the -f command line option if their exists a connect line without
> > a valid user. An example connect line is in one of the attached files.
>
> Okay, I've found the problem. When the connection fails, psql momentarily
> runs without a valid database connection. When it does that, the
> multibyte encoding has the invalid value -1. (You need to compile with
> multibyte enabled to reproduce this.) With that value, PQmblen() has
> trouble when it parses the next line. Perhaps PQmblen() should simply
> return 1 when it is passed an invalid encoding. In any case it should do
> better than dump core.
Will fix. Also I will change the "invalid" encoding to a
default i.e. SQL_ASCII, not -1.
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Tatsuo Ishii