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Document that chr(0) is not supported, and why.
authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:11:23 +0000 (17:11 +0000)
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:11:23 +0000 (17:11 +0000)
doc/src/sgml/func.sgml

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-<!-- $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>