Re: BYTEA output presentation

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Peter Wang" <pwang(at)voyence(dot)com>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BYTEA output presentation
Date: 2004-07-16 20:48:43
Message-ID: 200407162248.43228.peter_e@gmx.net
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Peter Wang wrote:
> The BYTEA data look like "/031/024/001/003?/022/....".
> How can I use some PostgreSQL function to remove "/" when I use
> select statement ? What type of format is the BYTEA datatype? Can I
> output it to hexadecimal or octal format ? If you can, how ? Or do
> you know any third party tool or script which can output the
> hexadecimal or octal format for PostgreSQL's BYTEA datatype ? Your
> help is appreciated. Thank you.

libpq has functions to deal with bytea data:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/libpq-exec.html#LIBPQ-EXEC-ESCAPE-BYTEA

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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