Ineiev wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Can we scan the data before storing it
> > and detect when we will have the problem and then encode it then?
>
> Probably we could. I think some UTF-8 parsing would be needed, it's
> somewhat harder than to encode unconditionally.
If we encode unconditionally
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:30:42AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Ineiev wrote:
> > The question is what to do. we could wait for MySQL or store new messages
> > in something like base64, with a magic prefix.
>
> Upgrading quickly is problematic. And trying to upgrade just the
> database system and n