Re: have you feel anything when you read this ?

From: "Eugene E(dot)" <sad(at)bankir(dot)ru>
To: PFC <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com>
Cc: Achilleus Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: have you feel anything when you read this ?
Date: 2006-03-20 14:53:00
Message-ID: 441EC1CC.4070300@bankir.ru
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I wrote:

>> the problem is: you'll get this four byte sequence '\000' _instead_
>> of NUL-byte anyway.

You wrote:

> Your client library should take care of escaping and de-escaping.

We both agree as you see.

Then i am asking:
WHY should a client take care of de-escaping ? Why not to get his data
unchanged ?

If i forced to de-escape when using bytea then i may use text with the
same escaping/de-escaping AS WELL.

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