Re: Bytea to Text problems

Yeah, apparently it's OK when spewed out to the browser...Didn't think
of that :P

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:56:09AM -0500, John McCawley wrote:
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>>I've searched high and low, and all I've found is people being chided
>>for trying to convert from Bytea to text :)
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>>When I first designed my database, I simply didn't understand the
>>purpose of bytea, I didn't actually realize that there *was* a text data
>>type.  (Actually, I was porting from a MS SQL database, and if I
>>remember correctly, PgAdmin actually made the decision for me)  I now
>>need to convert my field from bytea to text, but there doesn't seem to
>>be a clean way to do it.  So far I have done the following:
>>
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>Doesn't straight assignment do it?
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>Don't confuse the escaped output from bytea with the actual data.
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>Hope this helps,
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