Re: Bug #653: Unable to insert binary data into BYTEA

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: vicen(at)pv2c(dot)sk, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bug #653: Unable to insert binary data into BYTEA
Date: 2002-06-02 06:31:59
Message-ID: 200206020631.g526VxF14614@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > After creating an UTF8 database ("createdb --encoding "UTF8" ...) containing BYTEA columns the parser rejects insert queries with binary data because they're not UTF8 encoded (escaping doesn't help ;-).
>
> I don't kno how exactly escaped them, but you need to escape bytes >
> 0x7f (PQescapebytea has been fixed in that way in current). Or you
> could cast them as bytea.

Oh, that is interesting. I didn't realize the interaction between
encodings and bytea, I guess because bytea usage is only recently
popular. Do we document this bytea limitation properly?

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