Re: [HACKERS] Logical Replication and Character encoding

On 4/6/17 11:47, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 4/5/17 21:32, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:
>> At Wed, 5 Apr 2017 11:33:51 -0400, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote in
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>>> After further thinking, I prefer the alternative approach of using
>>> pq_sendcountedtext() as is and sticking the trailing zero byte on on the
>>> receiving side.  This is a more localized change, and keeps the logical
>>> replication protocol consistent with the main FE/BE protocol.  (Also, we
>>> don't need to send a useless byte around.)
>>
>> I'm not sure about the significance of the trailing zero in the
>> the logical replication protocol.
> 
> It doesn't matter.  It could be "nice" to have it because then the
> receiving side doesn't need to add it if it wants to assemble a C
> string.  But for the reasons above, it doesn't seem worth doing that.

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