Using a client and server encoding of SQL_ASCII makes it possible to get 0x00 into a text value column when using a bind variable.
Thanks, Brett On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 9:22 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Brett Okken <brett.okken...@gmail.com> writes: > > It might also be helpful to state in the opening paragraph about > character > > set support that the NUL character is not supported in any character set > > (except SQL_ASCII). > > Uh, it's not supported *anywhere*, period. If you managed to get the > server to accept a text string with an embedded NUL, I'd like to know > how exactly, because that's a missed validation. > > As far as documentation goes, I'd be inclined to address the point > in the page about string data types, > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-character.html > > with text along the lines of "The contents of a string value must be > validly encoded according to the database's encoding, and cannot include > the character with code zero". I'd sort of thought we said that there > already, but I don't see it. > > regards, tom lane >
