Paul A Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net> writes:
> this is not what i was hoping for at ALL. evidently the implementation of
> text assumes NUL-termination in other places than the parser.
Yes. The entire datatype I/O system is based on null-terminated
strings, so there's no easy way to fix this. If it were just an
internal problem then maybe we'd bite the bullet and do it, but
breaking every user-defined datatype in existence seems too high
a price to pay for this problem.
> ultimately
> this means that pgsql will need a "blob" type whose presentation format is
> uuencode or some such.
See bytea, though its presentation format leaves something to be desired
IMHO.
> how would someone be expected to store, say, a GIF image in a TOAST text?
One would not. A TOASTed bytea is the appropriate column type.
regards, tom lane