Re: possible design bug with PQescapeString()

[Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>]

> > > > > But actually I'd argue that
> > > > > letting the client programmer supply the encoding is still a 
> > > > > pretty dangerous practice.  Your example demonstrates 
> > that if the 
> > > > > encoding PQescapeString is told is different from the 
> > encoding the 
> > > > > backend parser thinks is in use, problems result.  Perhaps we 
> > > > > should pass the PGconn to new-PQescapeString and let it 
> > dig the client encoding out of that.
> > > > 
> > > > Sound good to pass PGconn to new-PQescapeString. Here is the 
> > > > proposed calling sequence for the new function:
> > > > 
> > > > size_t PQescapeStringWithConn (const PGconn *conn, char 
> > *to, const 
> > > > char *from, size_t length)
> > > > 
> > > > If this is ok, I will implement for 8.2.
> > 
> > Here is the promised patches for 8.2. If there's no 
> > objection, I will commit tomorrow.
> 
> Just a reminder - to work on win32, the new function needs an entry in
> exports.txt.

Thanks. Could you tell me what the number column in the file is? Can I
assign arbitary number for the function? (maybe next to the last
number?) I'm not familiar with win32 build.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan