Re: storing binary data

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Jason Orendorff <jason(at)jorendorff(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: storing binary data
Date: 2001-10-24 18:57:48
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0110232315080.642-100000@peter.localdomain
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Jason Orendorff writes:

> Hi. I was surprised to discover today that postgres's
> character types don't support zero bytes. That is,
> Postgres isn't 8-bit clean. Why is that?

PostgreSQL is 8-bit clean. The character types don't support zero bytes
because the character types store characters, not bytes.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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