Re: Re: Examples of using bytea type - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Re: Examples of using bytea type
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Msg-id 200107201605.f6KG5sK16315@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Re: Examples of using bytea type  (Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>)
List pgsql-general
> Bytea IS documented in 7.2-devel and is definitely not going away. Major
> benefit of bytea over base64/whatever encoding is storage space. Need to
> escape/unescape input data depends on your frontend client. Perl DBD::Pg
> will do it transparently without needing to do \\ escapes.
>
> In 7.2, there will also be functions base64_encode/base64_decode for bytea
> types. In 7.1, they exist under contrib/pg_crypto

Do they need to be removed from 7.2 /contrib?  Please tell me how.

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