On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 10:26 +0200, Albe Laurenz wrote:
> Jeff Davis wrote:
> > I have a UTF8 encoded database. I can do
> >
> > => SELECT '\xb9'::text;
> >
> > But that seems to be the only way to get an invalid utf8 byte sequence
> > into a text type.
> [...]
> > So, if I were to sum this up in
Jeff Davis wrote:
> I have a UTF8 encoded database. I can do
>
> => SELECT '\xb9'::text;
>
> But that seems to be the only way to get an invalid utf8 byte sequence
> into a text type.
[...]
> So, if I were to sum this up in a single question, why does cstring
not
> accept invalid utf8 sequences?
The following encoding behavior seems strange to me (v8.1.4). I have
read the docs, but I am still confused.
I have a UTF8 encoded database. I can do
=> SELECT '\xb9'::text;
But that seems to be the only way to get an invalid utf8 byte sequence
into a text type.
Even if I do PQexecParams and se
