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The argument values supplied to a PL/Tcl function's code are simply the input arguments converted to text form (just as if they had been displayed by a SELECT statement). Conversely, the return command will accept any string that is acceptable input format for the function's declared return type. So, within the PL/Tcl function, all values are just text strings.
bytea data needs to be translated to/from PostgreSQL bytea escaping. This can be done using code such as:
set binary_data [ string map { \\000 \000 \\\\ \\ } $1 ]
and
return [ string map { \000 \\000 \\ \\\\ } $binary_data ]