On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 08:28:04PM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> If you look at commit:
> d8744d1693c1fc6e231278dd9a6537f269371192
> and the code:
>
> + if self.blob_map:
> + for blob_var in self.blob_map.keys():
> + kw[blob_var] = kw[blob_var].replace('\\', '\\\\')
>
> This worked fine in default Pg till version 9.0, but the behavior
> depends on server side setting of option standard_conforming_strings
> (boolean):
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-compatible.html
>
> and this option changed its default value in 9.1. Which caused that
> this statement corrupts data if \<char> appears in blob.
>
> Why we could not use ordinary prepare here?
That would break existing 8.4-based installations, wouldn't it? Do we
have a way to hardcode setting the option upon connect so that we know
it behaves the way we assume even on older versions?
--
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
_______________________________________________
Spacewalk-devel mailing list
Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
