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Re: Support for \u0000?

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Matthew Byrne <mjw.byrne@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Would a more feasible approach be to introduce new types (say, TEXT2 and
> JSONB2 - or something better-sounding) which are the same as the old ones
> but add for support \u0000 and UTF 0?  This would isolate nul-containing
> byte arrays to the implementations of those types and keep backward
> compatibility by leaving TEXT and JSONB alone.

The problem is not inside those datatypes; either text or jsonb could
trivially store \0 bytes.  The problem is passing such values through
APIs that don't support it.  Changing those APIs would affect *all*
datatypes.

			regards, tom lane


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