Re: Record - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Aasmund Midttun Godal
Subject Re: Record
Date
Msg-id 20011024224111.24034.qmail@ns.krot.org
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In response to Re: Record  (wsheldah@lexmark.com)
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It handles the unescaping, but you have to escape to update/insert, I use:

s/([^\w])/sprintf("\\%03o", ord($1))/eg;

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:42:31 -0400, wsheldah@lexmark.com wrote:
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> If you're using Perl and the DBD::Pg driver, then you can use bytea without
> worrying about escaping anything, since the driver takes care of it.
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> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre%atentus.com@interlock.lexmark.com> on 10/24/2001
> 10:22:39 AM
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> To:   Aasmund Midttun Godal <postgresql%envisity.com@interlock.lexmark.com>
> cc:   julio%bntsoft.com.br@interlock.lexmark.com,
>       pgsql-general%postgresql.org@interlock.lexmark.com (bcc: Wesley
>       Sheldahl/Lex/Lexmark)
> Subject:  Re: [GENERAL] Record
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> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Aasmund Midttun Godal wrote:
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> an image in a table you have 2 options:
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> Third option is to encode the image (base64?) and then store as text.
> It's probably slower (since you have to decode it everytime), uses much
> more space, but you don't have to worry about escaping the byte
> sequence.
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> --
> Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]atentus.com>)
> Jajaja! Solo hablaba en serio!
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