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Re: storing binary data

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Jason Orendorff <jason@jorendorff.com>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-10-24T18:57:48Z
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Jason Orendorff writes:

> Hi.  I was surprised to discover today that postgres's
> character types don't support zero bytes.  That is,
> Postgres isn't 8-bit clean.  Why is that?

PostgreSQL is 8-bit clean.  The character types don't support zero bytes
because the character types store characters, not bytes.

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