[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 53 46 41 54 41 4C 00 43 30 38 50 30 31 00 4D 69 SFATAL.C08P01.Mi > 6E 76 61 6C 69 64 20 73 74 61 72 74 75 70 20 70 nvalid.startup.p > 61 63 6B 65 74 20 6C 61 79 6F 75 74 3A 20 65 78 acket.layout:.ex > 70 65 63 74 65 64 20 74 65 72 6D 69 6E 61 74 6F pected.terminato > 72 20 61 73 20 6C 61 73 74 20 62 79 74 65 00 46 r.as.last.byte.F > 2E 5C 73 72 63 5C 62 61 63 6B 65 6E 64 5C 70 6F .\src\backend\po > 73 74 6D 61 73 74 65 72 5C 70 6F 73 74 6D 61 73 stmaster\postmas > 74 65 72 2E 63 00 4C 31 35 35 37 00 52 50 72 6F ter.c.L1557.RPro > 63 65 73 73 53 74 61 72 74 75 70 50 61 63 6B 65 cessStartupPacke > 74 00 00 t.. > > Last 'null' character seems odd
It's part of the protocol, actually (yes, two NUL bytes -- first one signals the end of the previous string, the second one signals the end of the packet). -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs