Simplfied Bytea input/output? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi,
I am adding image and large object support in my Cocoa
postgresql browser.

Are there going to be any enhanced bytea support functions
coming along?

It seems sorta silly to have to write customized C code
to import a file into a bytea field.

Maybe something like

CREATE TABLE image (
     name            text,
     raster          bytea
);

INSERT INTO image (name, raster)
     VALUES ('beautiful image', bytea_import('/etc/motd'));

SELECT bytea_export(image.raster, '/tmp/motd') FROM image
     WHERE name = 'beautiful image';

Jerry