Re: BUG #5944: COPY FROM doesn't work with international characters

Josh Berkus wrote:
> I have another example of this issue with WIN1252.  This line in a copy
> file:
>
> 659446  828     1       /6???\bH@^W^Za$H???\b???@\\/    <p><p></p><p>No
> valid or unique HTTP objects found in XML response.</p></p>
>
> Into this table:
>
>      Table "public.ep_tests"
> Column  |     Type     | Modifiers
> ---------+--------------+-----------
> id      | bigint       | not null
> v_id    | integer      | not null
> status  | character(1) | not null
> vkey    | text         |
> details | text         |
>
> Results in this error while loading the data:
>
> the following error is encounted by the \copy: ERROR:  missing data for
> column "details"
> CONTEXT:  COPY ep_tests, line 1028752: "659446  828     1       /6???\bH@?"
>
> The dump file was produced by using 9.0.3's pg_dump in text mode to dump
> an 8.2 database, then using 9.0.3's psql to load the file.  Both servers
> are UTF8, locale WIN1252.
>
> So it looks like we're not successfully escaping characters on WIN1252.
>  The characters in question are also latin characters.
>
> We've reproduced this on a clean install.

Has this been fixed?

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