Re: Invalid Unicode escape value at or near "\u0000"

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Japin Li <japinli(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Invalid Unicode escape value at or near "\u0000"
Date: 2021-11-15 08:06:34
Message-ID: 874e7e1d-0f8c-0a44-f030-494212317124@enterprisedb.com
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On 13.11.21 06:40, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Yes, it is a valid codepoint, but unfortunately PostgreSQL can't
> support it because it sometimes deals in null terminated string, even
> though internally it does track string data and length separately. We
> have to do that to use libc facilities like strcoll_r(), and probably
> many other things.

By the way, I think the server-side issues around this are fixable. The
real problem in my mind is how to present such values in client APIs
such as libpq.

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