Re: Does mbutils.c really need to use L'\0' ?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Does mbutils.c really need to use L'\0' ?
Date: 2010-07-06 21:55:06
Message-ID: 4C33A63A.9070906@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I grow weary of mopping up after pgindent, as in
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2010-07/msg00069.php
>
> The problem evidently is that pgindent hasn't heard of wide character
> constants. No doubt the best fix would be to teach it about them;
> but given that we seem to have next to no use for such constants,
> I'm dubious that it's worth the trouble. I suggest that it might be
> best to replace these usages of L'\0' by plain scalar 0. Does anyone
> think that wouldn't work or is too grotty?
>
>
>

or maybe 0x0000, which I gather from
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_character> is the usual locution.

cheers

andrew.

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