Re: Bytea string operator support

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:34:06PM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
> > > Why not just stick these things into encode() and name them
> > > "my-cool-encoding" or whatever.  There is no truly natural conversion
> > > between text and bytea, so encode/decode seem like the proper place.
> >
> > Here's a patch for bytea string functions. As discussed:
> >
> > text encode(bytea, 'escape')
> > bytea decode(text, 'escape')
>
> Why are you using \xxx encoding there?  As the 'escape' encoding
> is supposed to be 'minimalistic' as it escapes only 2
> problematic values, then IMHO it would be better to use
> \0 and \\ as escapes - takes less room.

Agreed, and I have documented this in the SGML pages.  Knowing this,
bytea becomes a much easier format to use.

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