Hi!
At 13:19 26.06.2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Depends what exactly you want to do.
>
>If you want to do it from a client-side perl program, just use DBD::Pg and
>bind the values as SQL_BINARY.
>
>If you want to do it from server-side, look at contrib/pgcrypto, and at
>the encode/decode functions.
>
>-alex
>On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > After long scratching and searching, I've come to conclusion that I'd
> like to
> > use the 'bytea' type, because it should be able to hold binary data.
> >
> > But, I've found no doc or FAQ or whatever on that type.
> >
> > How does one use it? More specifically, how do I get binary values into a
> > 'bytea'
> > column using SQL, and how do I get it out?!?
> >
> > I hope someone can help me out.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Joe
> >
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Thanks for your answer, but... it's neither Perl nor server side, it's
plain old libpg
for a programming environment named LabVIEW.
So, question stands. How to?
TIA,
Joe
