I need someone who understands UTF8 and perl to review this before being applied.
Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at: http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews and approves it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Kamholz wrote: > Hello, > > Here's a patch I added against plperl, originally against beta5, now > against rc1. It simply checks with GetDatabaseEncoding() if the current > database is in UTF-8, and if so, sets the UTF-8 flag on the arguments > that are passed to perl. This means that it isn't necessary to > utf8::upgrade() every string, as perl has no way of knowing offhand > that a string is UTF-8 -- but postgres does, because the database > encoding is specified, so it makes sense to turn the flag on. You > should also be able to properly manipulate UTF-8 strings now from > plperl as opposed to plperlu, because otherwise you'd have to use > encoding 'utf8' which was not allowed. It could also eliminate some > unexpected bugs if you assume that perl knows the string is unicode. It > is enabled only for perl 5.6 and higher, so earlier versions will not > be affected. > > I have been assured by crab that the patch is quite harmless and will > not break anything. It would be great to see it in 8 final! :-) > > Regards, > Dave > [ Attachment, skipping... ] > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster