Re: XML only working in UTF-8 - Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 open items list

2009-04-07 Thread Sergey Burladyan
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us writes: As near as I can tell, every place where you see an explicit cast between char * and xmlChar * is probably broken. I think we ought to approach this by refactoring to have all those conversions go through subroutines, instead of blithely casting. There is

Re: XML only working in UTF-8 - Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 open items list

2009-04-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Sunday 05 April 2009 05:00:04 Tom Lane wrote: Chris Browne cbbro...@acm.org writes: j...@agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) writes: This one is also really bad, but probably only Doc-patchable. However, can SQL/XML really be said to be core functionality if it only works in UTF-8? * BUG

Re: XML only working in UTF-8 - Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 open items list

2009-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: On Sunday 05 April 2009 05:00:04 Tom Lane wrote: Is there a reason not to fix it as suggested at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00032.php ie recode on-the-fly from database encoding to UTF8? Probably just verifying that it works.

Re: XML only working in UTF-8 - Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 open items list

2009-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: On Sunday 05 April 2009 05:00:04 Tom Lane wrote: Is there a reason not to fix it as suggested at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-02/msg00032.php ie recode on-the-fly from database encoding to UTF8? Probably just verifying that it works.

Re: XML only working in UTF-8 - Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 open items list

2009-04-04 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Browne cbbro...@acm.org writes: j...@agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) writes: This one is also really bad, but probably only Doc-patchable. However, can SQL/XML really be said to be core functionality if it only works in UTF-8? * BUG #4622: xpath only work in utf-8 server encoding Well,

XML only working in UTF-8 - Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 open items list

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Browne
j...@agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) writes: This one is also really bad, but probably only Doc-patchable. However, can SQL/XML really be said to be core functionality if it only works in UTF-8? * BUG #4622: xpath only work in utf-8 server encoding Well, much of the definition of XML assumes