[rt-devel] RT 1.3.48

Alex Pilosov alex at pilosoft.com
Mon Mar 5 09:50:59 EST 2001


On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, ivan wrote:
> 
> > If we try to get bytea columns out of the database normally; the encoding
> > is incorrect and lossy;  nulls are *returned* as ASCII '\000' instead of a
> > zero byte. (s/\\000/\x00/g; ?  No.  Then you can't store the string
> > '\000'.) 
> No. String \000 will be stored in database as \\000, and it does differ
> from \000 which is a representation for a null character. 
Erm, correction: I meant 'retrieved' not stored. ;)

-alex





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