Tom Lane wrote:
> ITAGAKI Takahiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I found a bug that pg_controldata ends with error if control files
> > contain 0x1A (Ctrl+Z) on Windows.
> 
> > We probably need to add PG_BINARY when we open control files
> > because 0x1A is an end-of-file marker on Windows.
> 
> Well, why is that a bug?  If the platform is so silly as to define text
> files that way, who are we to argue?

The problem is that our pg_controldata might have binary values that
contain 0x1a that will be confused by the operating system as
end-of-file.

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