Re: How to cast VARCHAR to BYTEA and vice-versa?

>>How do I cast VARCHAR to BYTEA?
> 
> 
> I think it would work to create a cast WITHOUT FUNCTION, assuming that
> the semantics you want is that the exact bytes in the varchar datum
> become the bytes in the bytea (no encoding or backslashing conversions).

Are pg_escape_bytea and pg_unescape_bytea available from the backend as 
well as libpq?

Chris