On 11/06/2010 08:30, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:

> Hello, All.
>
> Currently data in character set OCTETS are assigned to
> variables/fields as-is, which in combination with check for malformed
> string makes such assignments unpredictable and thus useless.
>

Justify, please. It seems the only problem is that it doesn't work the
way you want.

> I suggest to follow Oracle in this regard and convert binary data to
> hexadecimal string.
>

And break any application that expect things as working now. Why?

It just works different. There is no problem with current functionality.
It's not unpredictable in any way!


Adriano