Re: Text format protocol representation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Text format protocol representation
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Msg-id 87d6igv1wx.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv
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In response to Re: Text format protocol representation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Text format protocol representation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > What's the rationale for not including the trailing zero byte in the
> > protocol representation of the text format?
> 
> History, mostly --- we have not done it in the past.

nuls in strings aren't allowed, eh? Is there any possibility that nuls in
strings will be supported at some time in the future?

-- 
greg



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