On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:32:58PM +0200, Andrus Moor wrote:
> It seems that for some reason postgres returns sometimes escaped string size
> (eq. single byte 0x00 uploaded as \\000 size is returned as 5 )
I'd guess that "some reason" is because the data was over-escaped
when it was inserted -- that is, escaped and then escaped again.
Try inserting a small file and querying for the bytea column and
see what you get.
CREATE TABLE foo (data bytea);
INSERT INTO foo VALUES ($$\000$$);
INSERT INTO foo VALUES ($$\\000$$);
INSERT INTO foo VALUES ($$\\\000$$);
INSERT INTO foo VALUES ($$\\\\000$$);
SELECT data, octet_length(data) FROM foo;
data | octet_length
---------+--------------
\000 | 1
\\000 | 4
\\\000 | 2
\\\\000 | 5
(4 rows)
--
Michael Fuhr
