Thread: bytea type

bytea type

From
Franck Martin
Date:
I found bytea doing a \dT in psql, but I do not find any documentation on
it.

Could I have some source code implementation of bytea with examples ?

Franck Martin
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Re: bytea type

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
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> I found bytea doing a \dT in psql, but I do not find any documentation on
> it.
> 
> Could I have some source code implementation of bytea with examples ?

Yes, it is like text, but you can put in binary data as 'a\\000b' puts
a, null, b.

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