Re: Problems with pgcrypto and special characters

"Markus Wollny" <Markus.Wollny@computec.de> writes:
> ... I'am using the following function as workaround for a bytea-to-text-cast:

> create or replace function bytea2text(bytea) returns text as '
>  begin
>    return $1;
>  end;
>  ' language plpgsql;

That looks like your problem right there.

Possibly a binary cast (WITHOUT FUNCTION) would solve your problem,
though I doubt it will work well on bytea values containing \0.

            regards, tom lane