Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.navpoint.com [162.33.245.46]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f02LeIO81508 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:40:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA05859; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:40:53 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200101022140.QAA05859@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] how do i store \0 inside a text attribute? In-Reply-To: <200101020356.TAA44454@redpaul.mfnx.net> "from Paul A Vixie at Jan 1, 2001 07:56:33 pm" To: Paul A Vixie Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:40:53 -0500 (EST) CC: PostgreSQL-documentation X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200101/7 X-Sequence-Number: 141 > well, not only that, but it doesn't show up in my cursory reading of the > online html Sure. I didn't really know what it was used for until a few months ago when someone was trying to get a NULL into a field. I am CC'ing the docs list to see if someone can come up with a patch. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026