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Old 02-04-2011
Ubuntu: 1058-1: PostgreSQL vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: Geoff Keating reported that a buffer overflow exists in the intarraymodule's input function for the query_int type. This could allow anattacker to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrarycode as the postgres user. [More...]

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PG_CLIENT_ENCODING(3)													     PG_CLIENT_ENCODING(3)

pg_client_encoding - Gets the client encoding

SYNOPSIS
string pg_client_encoding ([resource $connection]) DESCRIPTION
PostgreSQL supports automatic character set conversion between server and client for certain character sets. pg_client_encoding(3) returns the client encoding as a string. The returned string will be one of the standard PostgreSQL encoding identifiers. Note This function requires PHP 4.0.3 or higher and PostgreSQL 7.0 or higher. If libpq is compiled without multibyte encoding support, pg_client_encoding(3) always returns SQL_ASCII. Supported encoding depends on PostgreSQL version. Refer to the PostgreSQL Documenta- tion supported encodings. The function used to be called pg_clientencoding(3). PARAMETERS
o $connection - PostgreSQL database connection resource. When $connection is not present, the default connection is used. The default connection is the last connection made by pg_connect(3) or pg_pconnect(3). RETURN VALUES
The client encoding, or FALSE on error. EXAMPLES
Example #1 pg_client_encoding(3) example <?php // Assume $conn is a connection to a ISO-8859-1 database $encoding = pg_client_encoding($conn); echo "Client encoding is: ", $encoding, " "; ?> The above example will output: Client encoding is: ISO-8859-1 SEE ALSO
pg_set_client_encoding(3). PHP Documentation Group PG_CLIENT_ENCODING(3)