Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>, Joerg Hessdoerfer <Joerg(dot)Hessdoerfer(at)sea-gmbh(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?
Date: 2001-09-04 10:25:48
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0109041222481.828-100000@peter.localdomain
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Joe Conway writes:

> On a related note, are there any other bytea functions we should have in the
> backend before freezing for 7.2?

The SQL standards has a lot of functions for BLOB...

> I was thinking it would be nice to have a
> way to cast bytea into text and vice-versa, so that the normal text
> functions could be used for things like LIKE and concatenation.

Better write a native LIKE function for bytea, now that some parts are
threatening to make the text-LIKE function use the locale collating
sequence. (Multibyte aware text could also have interesting effects.)

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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