Thread: [Bug] COPY staments with paths containing non-ASCII characters under WinXP

Hi,

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I observed following bug in Postgres 8.4 under Windows XP with German
locale:

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-          I create a text file C:\Foo\F=F6=F6.txt with valid one column CSV
content, let it be =93a=94 in quotes

-          In PgAdmin 1.10.0, I then run:


CREATE DATABASE test

       ENCODING =3D 'UTF8'

       LC_COLLATE =3D 'German_Germany.1252'

       LC_CTYPE =3D 'German_Germany.1252'

       CONNECTION LIMIT =3D -1;

=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20

create table bar (

                foobar text

);

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COPY bar FROM E'C:\\Foo\\F=F6=F6.txt' WITH CSV

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-          The COPY statement will fail if the path contains special
characters. Renaming F=F6=F6 into Foo would work. Message returned in German
locale:

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FEHLER:  konnte Datei =BBC:\Foo\F=F6=F6.txt=AB nicht zum Lesen =F6ffnen: No=
 such file
or directory

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********** Fehler **********

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FEHLER: konnte Datei =BBC:\Foo\F=F6=F6.txt=AB nicht zum Lesen =F6ffnen: No =
such file
or directory

SQL Status:58P01

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Your advice on worksarounds is appreciated. My guess is that the problem is
the file name being given in UTF8 (DB default), but Windows paths being
stored in an 1-bye encoding.

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Best wishes and seasonal greetings,

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Joachim

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