Re: Displaying text appears as hex data

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 02:19:49PM +0100, Michael wrote:

> >> The arrow in the last line indicates that 'convert_from' is not
> >> correctly parsed.
> >>
> >My understanding was that your msg column was of type bytea.  Is this
> >not the case?  Or is it a different column which needs converting?
> >
> The main developer has confirmed that the msg column is stored
> as a BLOB,

That is not really possible since PostgreSQL does not have a
"BLOB" data type as such.

It would either be a BYTEA column or a Large Object (which
would live elsewhere and not inside the table you work on).

> and I'm nearly sure that bytea is used in this case.

Very likely.

Karsten
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