Re: The plan for UTF-8

On Feb 8, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

>> Just to clarify, when you say "everything" here, I assume you mean 
>> everything except data in a BYTEA column, right?
> 
> Correct - the bytea data comes back in an escaped form, and then 
> we run dequote on it, but we explicitly do NOT set the resulting 
> string as utf8. All the other dequote functions *will* set it 
> as needed, however (either by looking at the global var or 
> seeing if the string is already set that way, I haven't got 
> to that part yet).

Sound good.

I assume that large objects should be treated the same? Or is that interface separate enough that it doesn't apply?

Best,

David