Doc: explain that the string types can't store \0 (ASCII NUL).

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 10c601578a25a1811e68c30d2775952858672a15
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2020-12-08T17:06:19Z
Releases: 11.11
Doc: explain that the string types can't store \0 (ASCII NUL).

This restriction was mentioned in connection with string literals,
but it wasn't made clear that it's a general restriction not just
a syntactic limitation in query strings.

Per unsigned documentation comment.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/160720552914.710.16625261471128631268@wrigleys.postgresql.org

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