Re: BUG #3819: UTF8 can't handle \000

Franklin Schmidt wrote:
> I agree that storing 0x00 in a UTF8 string is weird, but I am
> converting a huge database to postgres, and in a huge database, weird
> things happen.  Using bytea for a text field just because one in a
> million records has a 0x00 doesn't make sense to me.  I did hack
> around it in my conversion code to remove the 0x00 but I expect that
> anyone else who tries converting a big database to postgres will also
> confront this issue.

That's the right solution. If you have 0x00 bytes in your text fields,
you're much better off cleaning them away anyway, than trying to work
around them.

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