Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> 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?
What's wrong with using "bytea" for binary data?
-Doug
