Re: [HACKERS] Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?

[Bruce Momjian]

> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Let me ask a bigger question.  We have the length of the text string in
> > the varlena header.  Are we concerned about backend code not handling
> > NULL in text fields, or frontend code returning strings with embedded
> > nulls?
> 
> The former.
> 
> > I see problems in the text() functions for nulls, but is such a
> > limitation required for text types?
> 
> Unless you want to re-implement strcoll() and friends from scratch.

Yes, I saw strcoll().

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