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From Eugene E.
Subject Re: have you feel anything when you read this ?
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I wrote:

>> the problem is: you'll get this four byte sequence '\000' _instead_ 
>> of  NUL-byte anyway.

You wrote:

> Your client library should take care of escaping and de-escaping. 

We both agree as you see.

Then i am asking:
WHY should a client take care of de-escaping ? Why not to get his data 
unchanged ?

If i forced to de-escape when using bytea then i may use text with the 
same escaping/de-escaping AS WELL.

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