On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm mostly in favor of allowing \u0000. Banning \u0000 means users
> can't use JSON strings to marshal binary blobs, e.g. by escaping
> non-printable characters and only using U+0000..U+00FF. Instead, they
> have to use base64 or similar.
I agree. I mean, representing data using six bytes per source byte is
a bit unattractive from an efficiency point of view, but I'm sure
someone is going to want to do it. It's also pretty clear that JSON
string -> PG text data type is going to admit of a number of error
conditions (transcoding errors and perhaps invalid surrogate pairs) so
throwing one more on the pile doesn't cost much.
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