Thread: BYTEA output presentation

I output the BYTEA datatype for a table in our database.
The BYTEA data look like "/031/024/001/003?/022/....".
How can I use some PostgreSQL function to remove "/" when I use select statement ?
What type of format is the BYTEA datatype? Can I output it to hexadecimal or octal format ? If you can, how ?
Or do you know any third party tool or script which can output the hexadecimal or octal format for PostgreSQL's BYTEA
datatype?  
Your help is appreciated. Thank you.



Peter Wang,

Peter Wang wrote:
> The BYTEA data look like "/031/024/001/003?/022/....".
> How can I use some PostgreSQL function to remove "/" when I use
> select statement ? What type of format is the BYTEA datatype? Can I
> output it to hexadecimal or octal format ? If you can, how ? Or do
> you know any third party tool or script which can output the
> hexadecimal or octal format for PostgreSQL's BYTEA datatype ? Your
> help is appreciated. Thank you.

libpq has functions to deal with bytea data: 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/libpq-exec.html#LIBPQ-EXEC-ESCAPE-BYTEA

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Peter Eisentraut
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