Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other, and

octal escape all octets outside the range 0x20 to 0x7e. This fixes
the problem pointed out by Sergey Yatskevich here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2003-11/msg00140.php

doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.106.2.3 2003/01/29 01:09:03 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.106.2.4 2003/11/30 20:52:37 joe Exp $
 -->
 
  <chapter id="datatype">
@@ -1035,7 +1035,8 @@ SELECT b, char_length(b) FROM test2;
     strings are distinguished from characters strings by two
     characteristics: First, binary strings specifically allow storing
     octets of zero value and other <quote>non-printable</quote>
-    octets.  Second, operations on binary strings process the actual
+    octets (defined as octets outside the range 32 to 126).
+    Second, operations on binary strings process the actual
     bytes, whereas the encoding and processing of character strings
     depends on locale settings.
    </para>
@@ -1089,12 +1090,23 @@ SELECT b, char_length(b) FROM test2;
        <entry><literal>\\</literal></entry>
       </row>
 
+      <row>
+       <entry>0 to 31 and 127 to 255</entry>
+       <entry><quote>non-printable</quote> octets</entry>
+       <entry><literal>'\\<replaceable>xxx'</></literal> (octal value)</entry>
+       <entry><literal>SELECT '\\001'::bytea;</literal></entry>
+       <entry><literal>\001</literal></entry>
+      </row>
+
      </tbody>
     </tgroup>
    </table>
 
    <para>
-    Note that the result in each of the examples in <xref linkend="datatype-binary-sqlesc"> was exactly one
+    The requirement to escape <quote>non-printable</quote> octets actually
+    varies depending on locale settings. In some instances you can get away
+    with leaving them unescaped. Note that the result in each of the
+    examples in <xref linkend="datatype-binary-sqlesc"> was exactly one
     octet in length, even though the output representation of the zero
     octet and backslash are more than one character. <type>Bytea</type>
     output octets are also escaped. In general, each
@@ -1140,7 +1152,7 @@ SELECT b, char_length(b) FROM test2;
       <row>
        <entry>32 to 126</entry>
        <entry><quote>printable</quote> octets</entry>
-       <entry>ASCII representation</entry>
+       <entry>client character set representation</entry>
        <entry><literal>SELECT '\\176'::bytea;</literal></entry>
        <entry><literal>~</literal></entry>
       </row>

src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c,v 1.92.2.1 2003/04/23 18:19:23 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c,v 1.92.2.2 2003/11/30 20:52:37 joe Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -174,10 +174,10 @@ byteaout(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	{
 		if (*vp == '\\')
 			len += 2;
-		else if (isprint((unsigned char) *vp))
-			len++;
-		else
+		else if ((unsigned char) *vp < 0x20 || (unsigned char) *vp > 0x7e)
 			len += 4;
+		else
+			len++;
 	}
 	rp = result = (char *) palloc(len);
 	vp = vlena->vl_dat;
@@ -188,9 +188,7 @@ byteaout(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 			*rp++ = '\\';
 			*rp++ = '\\';
 		}
-		else if (isprint((unsigned char) *vp))
-			*rp++ = *vp;
-		else
+		else if ((unsigned char) *vp < 0x20 || (unsigned char) *vp > 0x7e)
 		{
 			val = *vp;
 			rp[0] = '\\';
@@ -201,6 +199,8 @@ byteaout(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 			rp[1] = DIG(val & 03);
 			rp += 4;
 		}
+		else
+			*rp++ = *vp;
 	}
 	*rp = '\0';
 	PG_RETURN_CSTRING(result);

src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c,v 1.122 2002/09/04 20:31:47 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c,v 1.122.2.1 2003/11/30 20:52:37 joe Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ PQescapeString(char *to, const char *from, size_t length)
  *		'\0' == ASCII  0 == \\000
  *		'\'' == ASCII 39 == \'
  *		'\\' == ASCII 92 == \\\\
- *		anything >= 0x80 ---> \\ooo (where ooo is an octal expression)
+ *		anything < 0x20, or > 0x7e ---> \\ooo
+ *                                      (where ooo is an octal expression)
  */
 unsigned char *
 PQescapeBytea(unsigned char *bintext, size_t binlen, size_t *bytealen)
@@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ PQescapeBytea(unsigned char *bintext, size_t binlen, size_t *bytealen)
 	vp = bintext;
 	for (i = binlen; i > 0; i--, vp++)
 	{
-		if (*vp == 0 || *vp >= 0x80)
+		if (*vp < 0x20 || *vp > 0x7e)
 			len += 5;			/* '5' is for '\\ooo' */
 		else if (*vp == '\'')
 			len += 2;
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ PQescapeBytea(unsigned char *bintext, size_t binlen, size_t *bytealen)
 
 	for (i = binlen; i > 0; i--, vp++)
 	{
-		if (*vp == 0 || *vp >= 0x80)
+		if (*vp < 0x20 || *vp > 0x7e)
 		{
 			(void) sprintf(rp, "\\\\%03o", *vp);
 			rp += 5;