Paul Draper <paulddraper@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > When inserting the U+0000 (NULL) character, PostgreSQL errors: > ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x00 > I understand I could not use the text type, but given that this is a valid > Unicode character, is there a reason this is not supported? Yes: internally, the text representation of all data types is a C string, ie a \0-terminated string. That's not something that's practical to change. regards, tom lane
