Re: Text format protocol representation

Tom Lane kirjutas N, 22.05.2003 kell 18:38:
> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> > Oh, I don't. I was just mentioning that if you append a nul in the protocol
> > and allow applications to use that instead of the length provided then you've
> > pretty much committed to never allowing nuls in text/varchars.
>
> Um. Well, there isn't any such assumption in the protocol (and I'm agin
> Peter's suggestion to put one in), but realistically I don't see us ever
> allowing \0 in external-text-representation strings. It would break too
> many things on both client and server sides, and the payback is too small.
>
> The cases I can think of where you'd like to allow \0 are really binary
> data, not text, and we now have respectably clean support for binary
> I/O.

I know about the /O part but what about I/ ?

Are \0's handled cleanly in INSERT statements ?

Or can new protocol send binary bind variables for prepared statements ?

> So the need to allow it seems to me to have dropped way down, too.

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Hannu