Re: pltcl bug in 7.2? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pltcl bug in 7.2?
Date
Msg-id 200206202119.g5KLJwP19317@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: pltcl bug in 7.2?  (Yury Don <yura@vpcit.ru>)
Responses Re: pltcl bug in 7.2?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Should this patch be included in our code?

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Yury Don wrote:
> Hello Tom,
>
> Friday, April 19, 2002, 8:32:16 PM, you wrote:
>
> TL> Yury Don <yura@vpcit.ru> writes:
> >> Hello All,
> >> We have a database with koi8-r encoding, tables and fields names
> >> mostly in russian, and we have a trigger function on pltcl. With postgresql 7.1 everything
> >> worked well, but in 7.2 we are getting an error "utf_to_local: could
> >> not convert UTF-8" in the following construction
> >> foreach field [array names NEW] {
> >>   if {[info exists OLD(${field})]} ....
>
> TL> Hmm.  Someone added code in 7.2 to support conversion between the
> TL> database's encoding (whatever you specified with -E) and the UTF-8
> TL> encoding that Tcl wants to use all the time.  Sounds like you've
> TL> found a bug in that code.
>
> I've removed conversion between the database's encoding by changing in
> pltcl.c
> #if defined(UNICODE_CONVERSION) && TCL_MAJOR_VERSION == 8 \
> to
> #if defined(UNICODE_CONVERSION_1) && TCL_MAJOR_VERSION == 8 \
> and after that an error have disappeared and everything works well.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Yury                            mailto:yura@vpcit.ru
>
>
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