-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.419 2007/12/21 03:37:18 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.419.2.1 2008/03/03 17:11:23 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="functions">
<title>Functions and Operators</title>
Character with the given code. For <acronym>UTF8</acronym> the
argument is treated as a Unicode code point. For other multibyte
encodings the argument must designate a strictly
- <acronym>ASCII</acronym> character.
+ <acronym>ASCII</acronym> character. The NULL (0) character is not
+ allowed because text data types cannot reliably store such bytes.
</entry>
<entry><literal>chr(65)</literal></entry>
<entry><literal>A</literal></entry>