From: | Michael <postgresql(at)encambio(dot)com> |
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To: | Postgresql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Displaying text appears as hex data |
Date: | 2011-02-08 14:01:23 |
Message-ID: | 20110208140123.GB441@debut.europalab.com |
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Hello Karsten,
On Tues., Feb 08, 2011, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 02:19:49PM +0100, Michael wrote:
>>>> The arrow in the last line indicates that 'convert_from' is not
>>>> correctly parsed.
>>>>
>>>My understanding was that your msg column was of type bytea. Is this
>>>not the case? Or is it a different column which needs converting?
>>>
>> The main developer has confirmed that the msg column is stored
>> as a BLOB,
>
>That is not really possible since PostgreSQL does not have a
>"BLOB" data type as such.
>
>It would either be a BYTEA column or a Large Object (which
>would live elsewhere and not inside the table you work on).
>
>> and I'm nearly sure that bytea is used in this case.
>>
>Very likely.
>
Okay, after looking at the sources I can confirm that BLOB maps
indeed to the 'bytea' PostgreSQL data type.
Regards,
Michael
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