Re: Search content within a bytea field

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Damiano Bolzoni <damiano(dot)bolzoni(at)gmail(dot)com>, Sylvain Leroux <sl20(at)wanadoo(dot)fr>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Search content within a bytea field
Date: 2009-09-03 13:59:11
Message-ID: 82iqg0w2mo.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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* Tom Lane:

> The JDBC environment behaves differently because setString and so on
> do not produce unmarked literals --- there's an implicit cast to
> some datatype. So you have to make sure you've picked a
> parameter-setting function that is reasonably compatible with the
> intended operation.

You can append "?stringtype=unspecified" to the JDBC URL, and you get
bevahior which matches more closely what other (non-Java) interfaces
do.

> This is a good thing, really; it tends to keep the system from
> choosing an unexpected operation.

It more or less prevents use of fancy types. There doesn't seem to be
to set an unspecified type on a per-parameter basis, unfortunately.

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