X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694C6D1B584 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:10:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 48316-07 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:10:31 -0400 (AST) Received: from rock.spider.ru (rock.spider.ru [62.183.34.226]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3125D1B54C for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:10:26 -0400 (AST) Received: from rock (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rock (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F93791461 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:10:28 +0300 (MSK) Received: from sad.localnet.ru (sad.localnet.ru [10.0.0.33]) by rock.spider.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B8A913FE for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:10:28 +0300 (MSK) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: sad Organization: IT To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: varlena versus null-terminated strings Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:12:36 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200310301612.36647.sad@bankir.ru> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200310/399 X-Sequence-Number: 15799 Hi Developers. I think the problem is the input/output functions pass=20 CSTRING -- not varlena. this waste all profits of using varlena storage cause values are not transparently passed.=20 then application forced to convert them reverse.