Re: Possible to run the server with ANSI/ISO string escapeing

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Ken Johanson <pg-user(at)kensystem(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Possible to run the server with ANSI/ISO string escapeing
Date: 2005-02-28 18:31:03
Message-ID: 200502281931.04266.peter_e@gmx.net
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Incidently, if you disable the backslash quoting, how does one enter
> raw binary data including NUL (\0) characters?

The bytea type has its own internal quoting/escaping mechanism (which
overlaps with the lexer's mechanism in some ways), so entering binary
data is not an issue.

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

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