| From: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: B-Tree support function number 3 (strxfrm() optimization) |
| Date: | 2014-08-07 19:42:54 |
| Message-ID: | CAM3SWZR0zVQaWEqmf0s4u+fv20sjT4c_g8XXvKuoUvRxsfSk1w@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> In my original patch, I wrote NUL, as in the NUL character. You've
> changed it to NULL, but the original was correct. NULL is a pointer
> value that is not relevant here; the character with value 0 is NUL.
"NULL-terminated string" seems like acceptable usage (e.g. [1]), but
I'll try to use the term NUL in reference to '\0' in the future to
avoid confusion.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-terminated_string
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Peter Geoghegan
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