Re: Making TEXT NUL-transparent

Hello

2011/11/24 Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>:
> Occasionally, we get bitten by embedded NUL bytes in TEXT values.  We
> take care of generating proper UTF-8, but this additional restriction
> sometimes slips by.  It would be really helpful if PostgreSQL could
> store such TEXT fields as-is (at least if they are computed internally,
> or come from query parameters).
>

and why you don't use bytea ? Text should be correct literal.

Regards

Pavel Stehule

> I haven't even looked how difficult it would be to implement this.  Do
> you think it's worth the trouble?
>
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