If it's going to break that many interfaces, then it's not going to be worth
the hassle.
Peter
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 2:55 PM
To: Grant Finnemore
Cc: Peter Mount; Interfaces
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] JDBC 'Unterminated quoted string'
Grant Finnemore <gaf@ucs.co.za> writes:
> In brief, there seems to be some problem at the backend inserting a
> \0.
char(n) does not support embedded nulls. Offhand I believe that bytea
is the only datatype that does, and even then you have to write 'em
with a backslash-escape --- ie, send "\000" not an actual null.
Fixing this is not likely to happen soon, if ever, because it would
involve a massive overhaul of the datatype I/O system, with such
side-effects as breaking every user-defined datatype in existence.
Textual representations of datatypes are C strings --- ie,
null-terminated --- and all datatype I/O routines depend on that.
regards, tom lane