Re: Re: Re: binary data

> Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz> writes:
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:22:32AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> He did say the rules for escaping things are tricky ;-).
> 
> >  And what use some better encoding if you have a lot of binary chars 
> > in data. For example base64, that code 2 chars to 3 instead \\000 
> > that encode 1 char to 4. 
> 
> Yeah, it's pretty messy.  Perhaps we could offer a couple of conversion
> functions that convert bytea to or from base64 or other popular
> encodings.  bytea is pretty impoverished --- it hasn't received the
> attention it deserves.

bytea is binary compatible with text/varchar()/char(), right?  It stores
the same format.

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