Re: Bytea string operator support

Have we made a decision on this?  I think we should apply it.

> > >
> > > > 2. Added PQescapeBytea to fe-exec.c
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if we want to encode the peculiarities of particular data
> > > types into the client libraries.  I could agree with adding a function
> > > that supplies a general-purpose encoding such as base64 (not necessarily
> > > preferred) which clients can use to feed data to the server.  In the
> > > future we might want to support the SQL-standard input formats for
> binary
> > > data types, which would require yet another round of functions to be
> added
> > > to libpq.
> > >
> > > After all, bytea is utterly non-standard, and if we make API extensions
> we
> > > should consider them in the long run.
> >
> > Bytea is pecular because you can't have the escaping done in the backend
> > because of the binary nature of bytea.  I think there was an attempt to
> > merge this into the escaping of SQL queries but that can't work because
> > of the handling of nulls and the string possibly being four times bigger
> > than the original.
> >
> > I agree this is type pollution into libpq but I don't see another option
> > except having the user code this stuff into their application.  Maybe we
> > need some type-handling library in the future were we can put all this
> > stuff.  Maybe we can add this to libpq now and create a separate library
> > when we need one.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> That was the main reason I wanted to see the bytea escape function in the
> PostgreSQL client library. Without it, every user needs to code something
> that performs this same functionality into their own app if they want to do
> something like: insert into foo(f1) values ('binary stuff');
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> Someone has mentioned that the Perl DBI module for PostgreSQL can
> already do this, but that doesn't help anyone writing in C or PHP
> (as two examples).
>
> Certainly if there is a SQL-standard, it would be better to support it. I
> scanned through SQL99, but didn't spot anything on SQL-standard input
> formats for binary. Peter, can you point me in the right direction?
>
> -- Joe
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