Re: Bug #653: Unable to insert binary data into BYTEA - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Bug #653: Unable to insert binary data into BYTEA
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Msg-id 200206020631.g526VxF14614@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Bug #653: Unable to insert binary data into BYTEA  (Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>)
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Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > After creating an UTF8 database ("createdb --encoding "UTF8" ...) containing BYTEA columns the parser rejects
insertqueries with binary data because they're not UTF8 encoded (escaping doesn't help ;-). 
>
> I don't kno how exactly escaped them, but you need to escape bytes >
> 0x7f (PQescapebytea has been fixed in that way in current). Or you
> could cast them as bytea.

Oh, that is interesting.  I didn't realize the interaction between
encodings and bytea, I guess because bytea usage is only recently
popular.  Do we document this bytea limitation properly?

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