Re: With Function 'Chr', is it a bug?
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Wang Haiyong <wanghaiyong@neusoft.com>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2007-01-17T14:53:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes: > Off the top of my head I would have thought there was a good case for > raising an error on chr(0). Aren't null bytes forbidden in text values? They're not supported, but we don't make any strenuous efforts to prevent them. A watertight prohibition would require extra effort in a lot of places, not only chr(). The string literal parser and text_recv and friends come to mind immediately; there are probably some others. Maybe we should lock all that down, but I don't see any percentage in fixing just one place. btw, I just noticed that chr() doesn't complain about arguments exceeding 255 ... regards, tom lane