Re: libpq5 8.3 breaks 8.2 compatibility with encodings - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Martin Pitt
Subject Re: libpq5 8.3 breaks 8.2 compatibility with encodings
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Msg-id 20071012173821.GM5911@piware.de
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In response to Re: libpq5 8.3 breaks 8.2 compatibility with encodings  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: libpq5 8.3 breaks 8.2 compatibility with encodings
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Hi,

Tom Lane [2007-10-12 13:23 -0400]:
> I'm becoming more and more convinced that this is initdb's bug not
> libpq's.  The problem stems from initdb using libpq's functions and
> assuming that its numbers match up with pg_wchar.h.  But note that
> pg_wchar.h is not exported by libpq.

Sounds convincing. The hard part is that this then also a bug in 8.2's
initdb, which cannot be changed, so at least for this case we'll need
a workaround.

Martin

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