Re: Record

No, you don't, just bind variable as SQL_BINARY, and it'll do the escaping
on its own. Search archives. :)

-alex
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Aasmund Midttun Godal wrote:

> It handles the unescaping, but you have to escape to update/insert, I use:
>
> s/([^\w])/sprintf("\\%03o", ord($1))/eg;
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:42:31 -0400, wsheldah(at)lexmark(dot)com wrote:
> >
> >
> > If you're using Perl and the DBD::Pg driver, then you can use bytea without
> > worrying about escaping anything, since the driver takes care of it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre%atentus(dot)com(at)interlock(dot)lexmark(dot)com> on 10/24/2001
> > 10:22:39 AM
> >
> > To: Aasmund Midttun Godal <postgresql%envisity(dot)com(at)interlock(dot)lexmark(dot)com>
> > cc: julio%bntsoft(dot)com(dot)br(at)interlock(dot)lexmark(dot)com,
> > pgsql-general%postgresql(dot)org(at)interlock(dot)lexmark(dot)com (bcc: Wesley
> > Sheldahl/Lex/Lexmark)
> > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Record
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Aasmund Midttun Godal wrote:
> >
> > an image in a table you have 2 options:
> >
> > Third option is to encode the image (base64?) and then store as text.
> > It's probably slower (since you have to decode it everytime), uses much
> > more space, but you don't have to worry about escaping the byte
> > sequence.
> >
> > --
> > Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]atentus(dot)com>)
> > Jajaja! Solo hablaba en serio!
> >
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