Bruce Burdick

+1 Alex!

I'm amazed that no one from Rails core has thought that this is important for ~18 months. C'est la vie. Thanks for fixing.

To be clear: I'm referring to the code block posted by Ken Collins, not to Erik Bryn's diff (which I have not read).

Bug report created for this: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets...

Credit goes to Kurt Stephens for identifying this bug.

This changeset introduced data corruption in active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/7329

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This code was introduced in this changeset: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/7329

This is a really bad design that will result in data corruption every time it is passed a string representing a hexadecimal number that is strictly composed of ...