Re: store in bytea

Im using PHP4.6

> What are you using to develop? If perl, DBD::Pg will escape/unescape bytea
> data after 0.98 version. (Unescaping is automatic, to escape, you need to
> do bind(.., SQL_BINARY)).
>
> -alex
>
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
>
> > But Ill have to add double slashes and even more importent I will have
to
> > unescape every binary data going out of the server, which mean in one of
my
> > aplication all the Images.
> >
> > Wont this action be much more heavey then the way I used untill now with
> > MySQL (blob) ?
> > addslash on insert and ordinary select for output.
> >
> > Does any one here save his website images on DB and retrive them out on
his
> > web page ?
> >
> > > "Ben-Nes Michael" <miki@canaan.co.il> writes:
> > > > On the theoretical issue, can I use TEXT field to store binary ?
> > >
> > > TEXT will not handle null (zero) bytes.  If you are using a multibyte
> > > character set, it will likely also do the wrong thing with byte
> > > sequences that are illegal or incomplete multibyte characters.
> > >
> > > Use BYTEA if you want to store arbitrary byte sequences --- that's
what
> > > it's for.
> > >
> > > regards, tom lane
> > >
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