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