Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To:
Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee>
Cc:
Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>,
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:34:06PM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
> > > Why not just stick these things into encode() and name them
> > > "my-cool-encoding" or whatever. There is no truly natural conversion
> > > between text and bytea, so encode/decode seem like the proper place.
> >
> > Here's a patch for bytea string functions. As discussed:
> >
> > text encode(bytea, 'escape')
> > bytea decode(text, 'escape')
>
> Why are you using \xxx encoding there? As the 'escape' encoding
> is supposed to be 'minimalistic' as it escapes only 2
> problematic values, then IMHO it would be better to use
> \0 and \\ as escapes - takes less room.
Agreed, and I have documented this in the SGML pages. Knowing this,
bytea becomes a much easier format to use.
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