Re: Text format protocol representation

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 08:47, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> What's the rationale for not including the trailing zero byte in the
> protocol representation of the text format?  The output functions of data
> types generate one, and the client most likely wants one, so it seems
> unreasonable that the protocol cuts it out and the client has to put it
> back.  Is the bandwidth saved worth the extra computation?

I maintain the Smalltalk PostgreSQL driver.  Smalltalk does not require
special terminator characters in Strings, so for me, if the extra
character gets added to the end, I have to strip it off.

So, why expend badwidth *and* computation on this?  :-)