| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> |
| Cc: | Hugh Mandeville <hughmandeville(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Re: binary data |
| Date: | 2001-06-22 15:40:17 |
| Message-ID: | 4217.993224417@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:22:32AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> He did say the rules for escaping things are tricky ;-).
> And what use some better encoding if you have a lot of binary chars
> in data. For example base64, that code 2 chars to 3 instead \\000
> that encode 1 char to 4.
Yeah, it's pretty messy. Perhaps we could offer a couple of conversion
functions that convert bytea to or from base64 or other popular
encodings. bytea is pretty impoverished --- it hasn't received the
attention it deserves.
regards, tom lane
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