Meanings
adjectivenull-terminated (not comparable)
- not comparablecomputingStored in memory followed by a null character, so that its length can be detected without having to be explicitly stored.
PostgreSQL has given you a text value, and text values are not null-terminated. You will need to convert fileNameText into a null-terminated string.
2003, Korry Douglas, Susan Douglas, PostgreSQL […] , Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 225Synonyms: zero-terminated
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveStored in memory followed by a null character, so that its length can be detected without having to be explicitly stored.
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