Thread: Re: TOAST and bytea JAVA

>Use bytea, its for 0-255, binary data.  When your client>library does not support it, then base64 it in client
side>andlater decode() into place.
 

Thanks, bytea sounds like what I need. Why no documentation on this 
important data type?

Does the Java client library support setting this type using
setBytes or setBinaryStream?

Chris,

Current sources for the jdbc driver does support the bytea type.
However the driver for 7.1 does not.

thanks,
--Barry


Chris Bitmead wrote:

>  >Use bytea, its for 0-255, binary data.  When your client
>  >library does not support it, then base64 it in client side
>  >and later decode() into place.
>
> Thanks, bytea sounds like what I need. Why no documentation on this
> important data type?
>
> Does the Java client library support setting this type using
> setBytes or setBinaryStream?
>
>
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