From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:11:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that chr(0) is not supported, and why.
X-Git-Tag: REL8_4_BETA1~1924
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dc41fd886976f2246d81da0788eaf9dd0a887f06;p=postgresql

Document that chr(0) is not supported, and why.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index b362d8ac03..72f8af603a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.420 2008/02/26 15:32:30 petere Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.421 2008/03/03 17:11:13 momjian Exp $ -->
 
  <chapter id="functions">
   <title>Functions and Operators</title>
@@ -1340,7 +1340,8 @@
         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>