On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:55 AM, <joe@snikeris.com> wrote:
> I believe the first argument [apparently of pg_sym_decrypt() and
> pg_pub_decrypt()] should be of type 'text'. Especially
> considering the paragraph that follows discusses how passing in
> bytea is disallowed.
The *encrypted* form is bytea; those functions *return* text and
are thus not a good way to get back to unencrypted bytea data; an
additional transformation would still be required to get to the
byte format from text, and the bytes representing those character
strings would depend on the character encoding.
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Kevin Grittner
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