Re: Postgresql 8.1: plperl code works with LATIN1, fail

> In an 8.1.6 UTF-8 database this example returns false; in 8.2.1 it
> returns true.  See the following commit message and the related bug
> report regarding PL/Perl and UTF-8:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-10/msg00277.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-10/msg00077.php
>
> If you can't upgrade to 8.2 then you might be able to work around
> the problem by creating the function as plperlu and adding 'use utf8;'.

> --
> Michael Fuhr

Hello Michael!

As fas as i know 'use utf8;' normally just tells Perl that the source code
is written in UTF-8 and noting more.
For converting from and to UTF-8 in data usually the Encode modul is used.
Or is this different for plperlu?

Greetings,
Matthias