Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
>>>> You will never be able to insert a null character into a PostgreSQL database.
>>>> You can either modify the source data or change the data in transit.
>>>
>>> This is not 100% true, but is true for text-fields. You can insert \0 into BYTEA columns.
>>
>> I was talking about characters, not bytes.
>
> '\0' is a character. I see noe specification of character-fields (like varchar and text) in your
> answer.
My definition would be:
A character is something that is normally written on paper and has
to be encoded to be stored in a computer system.
(seems not to stray to far from Wikipedia's definition.)
Characters can only occur in text fields.
An element of a bytea is not a character along these lines; hence the
type is called "BYTE Array".
But let's not split hairs, this is getting away from the problem at hand,
and I think you know what I mean and vice versa.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
