What are you using to develop? If perl, DBD::Pg will escape/unescape bytea
data after 0.98 version. (Unescaping is automatic, to escape, you need to
do bind(.., SQL_BINARY)).
-alex
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> But Ill have to add double slashes and even more importent I will have to
> unescape every binary data going out of the server, which mean in one of my
> aplication all the Images.
>
> Wont this action be much more heavey then the way I used untill now with
> MySQL (blob) ?
> addslash on insert and ordinary select for output.
>
> Does any one here save his website images on DB and retrive them out on his
> web page ?
>
> > "Ben-Nes Michael" <miki@canaan.co.il> writes:
> > > On the theoretical issue, can I use TEXT field to store binary ?
> >
> > TEXT will not handle null (zero) bytes. If you are using a multibyte
> > character set, it will likely also do the wrong thing with byte
> > sequences that are illegal or incomplete multibyte characters.
> >
> > Use BYTEA if you want to store arbitrary byte sequences --- that's what
> > it's for.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
>
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