On Feb 7, 2014, at 3:59 AM, Peter J. Holzer <h...@wsr.ac.at> wrote: >> o Decoding incoming data >> $$item{$_} = decode('utf-8', $$item{$_} || '') for keys %$item > > Same here. With pg_enable_utf8 I would expect to get character strings, > not byte strings, so no decode should be necessary.
With 3.0.0, if you have your client_encoding set to UTF-8, you can delete the call to pg_enable_utf8 and it will DTRT. This has been a long time coming, but most welcome. David