I inserted two binary files to a bytea field "contents"
file1 size was 7834649 bytes
file2 size was 5888534 bytes
select filename,
octet_length(contents),
length(contents)
from localfil
returns
"file1 ";16777184;16777184
"file2 ";15768893;15768893
It seems that for some reason postgres returns sometimes escaped string size
(eq. single byte 0x00 uploaded as \\000 size is returned as 5 )
Why result is incorrect ?
How to get the actual size of bytea field ?
Using Postgres 8.1 in XP , cluster encoding is UTF-8
Andrus.
