From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | kientzle(at)acm(dot)org |
Cc: | "Martin A(dot) Marques" <martin(at)math(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Using BLOBs with PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2000-10-10 00:17:14 |
Message-ID: | 200010100017.UAA00175@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > Yes, this opens a good question. We have long text fields, and bytea for
> > binary input with escapes. As far as I know, we can store binary values
> > in text fields, but we have no way of getting them in there via SQL
> > queries (except for bytea using escapes for the binary values).
>
> "bytea for binary data with escapes"??
>
> What would those escapes look like? I could not find any escape
> that would put a NULL character into a bytea field.
'a\\0b' put a, NULL, b. You need double-backslash to get one backslash
to the backend.
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