Re: bytea HISTORY updates

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bytea HISTORY updates
Date: 2001-11-21 03:16:19
Message-ID: 200111210316.fAL3GJ113017@candle.pha.pa.us
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Done, but didn't we use to allow \0 for NULL, while we now require \000?

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> Bruce,
>
> Please update HISTORY entries for bytea changes.
>
> Remove:
>
> Bytea comparison improvements, \### now requires three octal digits
>
> Add:
>
> Bug Fixes
> bytea \### now requires valid three digit octal number
>
> Types
> Bytea comparison improvements, now supports =, !=, >, >=, <, and <=
> Bytea now supports btree indexes
> Bytea now supports LIKE, LIKE...ESCAPE, NOT LIKE, NOT LIKE...ESCAPE
> Bytea now supports string concatenation
> New Bytea functions - position(), substring, trim, btrim, and length
> New encode() function mode, 'escaped', converts minimally escaped
> bytea to/from text
>
> Enhancements
> New libpq function, PQescapeBytea escapes binary string suitably for
> use as a SQL string literal
>
>
> Joe
>
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