Still trying to figure this out, still confused, but like most frustrating programming problems, I think I may be looking in the wrong place for the source of this error. Perhaps.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Ronald Peterson <r...@hub.yellowbank.com> writes: > > This does work for strings that don't contain consecutive zeroes. I'm > not > > really passing the string to PostgreSQL, but to Net::LDAP, but it must > hit > > PostgreSQL anyway? Active Directory requires this encoding, so I'm not > > sure what to do here. > > Hm, well, the concrete example you showed involved passing the string to > elog(), which definitely will complain if what it's fed isn't legal data > according to the database encoding; as would any other attempt to push > data into the Postgres server environment. I don't see why operations > that are strictly within Perl would have a problem, though. > > regards, tom lane > -- -R-