Re: 7.4 Wishlist - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Wheeler
Subject Re: 7.4 Wishlist
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Msg-id C1805CA7-04E4-11D7-8D38-0003931A964A@wheeler.net
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In response to Re: 7.4 Wishlist  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
Responses Re: 7.4 Wishlist
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On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 07:24  PM, Joe Conway wrote:

> That is one thing I'd like to take a look at. I think the problem is 
> that certain byte-sequence/multibyte-encoding combinations are 
> illegal, so it's not as simple an issue as it might first appear.

My understanding is that the nul character is legal in a byte sequence, 
but if it's not properly escaped, it'll be parsed as the end of the 
statement. Unfortunately, I think that it's a very tough problem to 
solve.

David

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