diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8e242c10d..c6d5700ae 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ dist
 /.eslintcache
 .vscode/
 manually-test-on-heroku.js
+tsconfig.tsbuildinfo
diff --git a/packages/pg-protocol/src/buffer-reader.ts b/packages/pg-protocol/src/buffer-reader.ts
index c9d9c2b66..42a4a23fa 100644
--- a/packages/pg-protocol/src/buffer-reader.ts
+++ b/packages/pg-protocol/src/buffer-reader.ts
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export class BufferReader {
     const start = this.offset
     let end = start
     // eslint-disable-next-line no-empty
-    while (this.buffer[end++] !== 0) {}
+    while (this.buffer[end++]) {}
     this.offset = end
     return this.buffer.toString(this.encoding, start, end - 1)
   }