Hi Guys, I have just begun coding in tcl/tk and hence sorry for this
simple question. I am using tcl8.3 / tk8.3 and postgreSQL 7.3 . I am not able to
load pgtclsh library into to my TK application for giving it backend
support. Can you please suggest me how to proceed?
Thanks, Amit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Welche" <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
To: "Joe Conway" <joseph.conway@home.com>
Cc: <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] [PATCHES] PQescapeBytea documentation patch
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:21:00PM -0800, Joe Conway wrote:
> > Here's a patch adding documentation for the PQescapeBytea function to
> > libpq.sgml
> ...
> + <function>PQescapeBytea</function>
> + Escapes a binary string (bytea type) for use within an SQL query.
> + <synopsis>
> + unsigned char *PQescapeBytea(unsigned char *from,
> + size_t from_length,
> + size_t *to_length);
>
>
> This makes me wonder: should libpq contain a function to do the opposite
> too? eg.
>
> string=GetValue(from a bytea type column)
> PQunescapeBytea(string, some buffer, buffer's size)
>
> - or is there already another way of doing it?
>
> It seems to me that anyone using bytea with libpq will end up having
> to reinvent this wheel. (Something worthy of being knocked up in my
> Copious Free Time (tm))
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>
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