--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> ljb <ljb220@mindspring.com> writes:
> > [Using PostgreSQL-7.3.4 and -7.4beta5, Tcl-8.4.x.]
> > Binary data written to a Large Object with
> libpgtcl's pg_lo_write is
> > corrupted. Tcl is mangling the data - something
> to do with UTF-8
> > conversion. Example: 0x80 becomes 0xc2 0x80, and
> 0xff becomes 0xc3 0xbf.
> > ...
> > Proposed Patch: (I think this requires Tcl >=
> 8.1)
>
> Yeah, it appears that ByteArrayObj was added in Tcl
> 8.1. We were
> already requiring Tcl 8.0 of course. Does anyone
> think that it's
> important to continue support for Tcl 8.0.* in
> libpgtcl?
>
I don't think it is important to require Tcl 8.0
anymore. Tcl 8.0 came out in 1998. We might be able to
get rid of some of the version checks as well in the
code.
--brett
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