Re: #escape_string_warning = off

Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Jeff Davis wrote:
> 
> 
>>Does the SQL standard provide no way to have a NULL character in a
>>string constant? Is single-quote the only special character?
> 
> 
> I don't think it forbids you from using the null character. It's not like 
> the strings are zero terminated. Some encodings might not allow the null 
> character, but that's different.
> 

But doesn't PostgreSQL forbid us from using the NULL character in a
query at all? Don't we always have to escape or encode it in some way?
Does this new attempt at standard-compliant strings allow PostgreSQL to
accept a null character in a string?

> ps. null character does not have anything to do with the sql NULL. I'm 
> sure there is someone somewhere that need this info.
> 

Yeah, I was talking about '\0'.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis