Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 02:06, Eugene E. wrote:
>
>>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-19.html
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>>mysql no longer terminates data value display when it encounters a NUL
>>byte. Instead, it displays NUL bytes as spaces. (Bug #16859)
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>
>
> Everyone here realizes that this is a mysql CLIENT bug, not server side.
>
> i.e. if you're writing an application and request that binary text
> string, you'll get it with nuls in it, just like you put in.
>
> Now, I'm not sure that turning nulls into spaces is the best way to
> handle this in the client. In fact, I'm sure it's not. But this is not
> a server bug, it's a client bug.
I was not sure about MySQL, thank you for your explaination.
This ensures me that even MySQL server handles NUL-bytes properly
regardless to client problems.
